Company status update

2010 has been an incredibly exciting year for Alienvault. The goals were set high and a lot of new stuff was supposed to happen, looking back at it now I first realize what we have achieved and how much work we've put into it.

On October 2009 both the Alienvault CEO and CTO joined a trip to Silicon Valley promoted by the "Comunidad de Madrid", where we visited some company incubators, Google offices and did some other stuff. But that trip was our eye opener, we needed to be competing in the US market with a stronger local presence, so Alienvault LLC got up and running.

The first public presence for this branch of Alienvault (originally founded on March 2007 btw) was at RSA 2010. It was fun but B-Sides, where I gave a Crappy talk :P, was much more interesting. But this is about the Company, so being there on the floor and sharing exhibit space with the other big players in the SIEM marketing was definetively a huge step forward.

Some OSSEC <--> AlienVault screenshots :-)

I recently tweeted about this, we're preparing a much tighter integration of OSSEC during this next release, starting with a web based management interface for:

• Rules
• Agent connection, crypto stuff
• Agentless
• OSSEC configuration
• Processes

Bundled with the reporting and analysis capabilities we've already got this makes for the perfect OSSEC companion.

Below are some teaser screenshots :-) (Devel guys will kill me, I should be completing the task definition instead of blogging about it...)

Screenshots:

May Poll results... a tad late

The outcome of the poll is clear: documentation is a must. We've been working on the installation and are pretty close to finish a very detailed user guide too. Updates to the wiki have happened and more interesting things in this direction will follow.

I for myself intend to continue with the tutorial series since I've heard good feedback on them.

I'm alive!

Finally I'll very soon get some more time (thanks to aliensanti :P) to write and am really excited about this  opportunity, really missed it.

My first three posts will be status updates:
- Company status update
- Product status update
- Personal status update

On all three areas there have been big and exciting changes which I'd like to share :-)

Best wishes to everybody!