Cyber Security: Master osquery

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Question your system

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Description

osquery is an working system instrumentation framework for amassing info from working techniques, hypervisors and purposes. It’s typically used to gather info for safety forensics, utility efficiency administration and compliance auditing. osquery helps a number of platforms together with Home windows, Linux and macOS.

The osquery toolset offers a SQL-based interface for querying working system information. This permits advanced queries to be constructed inside a well-known surroundings that’s each strong and safe. A question might include particular person or aggregated parts which might be composed along with AND / OR operators to kind a whole question. This offers the flexibleness that’s distinctive to SQL-based interfaces and permits customers to outline a versatile question workflow.

It’s a venture that goals to make working techniques extra clear. It does this by amassing info from the working system and making it accessible to purchasers (the osquery consumer, shipped as a part of osqueryd), which might then be queried utilizing a SQL-like question language.

On this course you’ll learn to use OSQuery to search out details about your computer systems and servers. It’s a learners course and no prior information is required, not even about SQL. If you’re a sysadmin, developer, safety researcher then this course is for you.