Tripwire

With the increasing number of attacks on servers nowadays, administering the server securely is becoming a complex problem. It is difficult to be sure that every attack has been effectively blocked.

Tripwire is a host-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), which can be used to monitor different filesystem data points and then alert us if any file gets modified or changed.

Getting Ready

We only need to install the Tripwire package on our Linux system to configure our IDS. In the next section, we will see how to install and configure the tool.

How to do it...

We will discuss how to install and configure Tripwire on our Ubuntu system in the following steps:

  1. The first step will be to install the Tripwire package using apt-get, as shown here: ...

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