Hey all, got a quick question!

I want to receive, parse and store syslogs from various devices on my home network on my windows box. I know, I know, its a bit backwards but I'd like to proceed with this sort of setup if possible (not against discussion, of course).

I've looked and looked for options but it seems like everything has been bare bones and basically just receives, or is locked behind premium. Surely there's some sort of solution out there, no? I'd be willing to implement something in Python if I need to but I'm considerably more hesitant when compared to using an open source soln.

Thanks for your time, looking forward to discussing/learning more!

  • faebudo@infosec.pub
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    8 months ago

    I would recommemd setting up greylog. It's pipelines are really mighty and not that hard to learn. You can run it in a VM.

    If you really want to you can run filebeat on windows with a file output, so it will write everything in json format to a file. However you will still have to parse ot, make it searchable etc.

    • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
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      8 months ago

      Yeah I’m familiar with filebeats and the ELK stack, set one of those up a long while ago to ingest Twitter from api before all that blew out a left kneecap haha.

      I’ll check it out as well!

      • alex_02@infosec.pub
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        8 months ago

        For the elk stack you can replace Logstash and Filebeat with Fluentbit and feed it directly to Elastic Search than use Kibana. I've found Logstash to be the resource hog and Fluentbit just runs a lot better imo.

        Some docs:

        https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/inputs/syslog

        https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/outputs/elasticsearch

        EDIT: All three of them can also be run in a docker or several depending on your needs and how you configure.

  • MSgtRedFox@infosec.pub
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    8 months ago

    I don't know if an open source solution for windows, but I know of a really cool IDS solution that does syslog. It's going to be overkill, and there's a learning curve, but it's worth it if you're into this stuff.

    Check out Security Onion 2.4

    It's Linux, but the install is kindergarten easy. Just download ISO, pick standalone mode.

    It has a web interface. The database is actually elastic search.

    If you take the time to play with this thing, it will skill you up. It's a fully scalable IDS.

    • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
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      8 months ago

      Interesting! It rings a bell for sure, and I could really just access the web interface from the windows box as a work around for the soln implementation i'm targetting. Thank you!