What is Osquery?
Osquery is a universal system security monitoring and an intrusion tool which specially focuses on your operating system.
Imagine a completely open-source tool which empowers you with monitoring the high-end file integrity by turning your operating system as a vast database. Osquery is one such boon for all the security researchers, legitimizing them with the most powerful option to check the status and configuration of firewalls which perform security audits and implement the threat intelligence.
To put it straight, Osquery is a cross-platform operating system instrumentation framework that supports all the recent versions of macOS, Windows, Debian, rpm, Linux. It is officially described as "SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring and analytics" framework and originated from Facebook.
Upon successful installation, Osquery gives you access to the following components:
Osquery can collect the data elements easily from the following:
Features of Osquery
Osquery is a framework with documented public APIs, which in turn can be used in creating new tools and products as required. The flexible and highly modular codebase is the core advantage of Osquery which helps its users to dive deep in researching more ways of implementing the new query concepts, thus developing new applications and tools further.
Pros and Cons:
Pros:
Cons:
Osquery does not support centralized deployment. It requires extended infrastructure lift by security teams
Conclusion:
When seen completely from a security perspective, The Osquery stands as the best tool, which can be used to query the data of various endpoints to detect, investigate and proactively hunt for different types of threats.
Osquery, An outstanding tool with more power to go!
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