Fancy intro

Daniel B. Cid is the lead developer of the open source OSSEC HIDS and a principal researcher at Trend Micro, Inc. His interests range from intrusion detection, log analysis (log-based intrusion detection) and secure development. He is an active member of the open source community, specially known for creating the OSSEC, Rootcheck and Syscheck packages. He is also the co-writer of the Host-Based Intrusion Detection book.

On June 2008, he sold his open source project OSSEC to Trend Micro/Third Brigade, and joined the company as the lead of OSSEC development.

Social stuff

@danielcid (Twitter)
Linkedin

Book

My OSSEC book is available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/OSSEC-Host-Based-Intrusion-Detection-Guide/dp/159749240X

OSSEC development

You can follow the OSSEC development via my bitbucket repository: http://bitbucket.org/dcid/

Interviews

Some interviews with me:

• 2010, Network World – Being acquired is the best thing for a FOSS project
• 2009, Net Security – Q&A: OSSEC, the open source host-based intrusion detection system
• 2009, Linux Magazine – Hobby seguro (commercial open source) (Portuguese)

Conferences and papers

• 2010 – SANS, DC – SANS log management and incident response summit
• 2009 – Ottsec, Canada – OSSEC HIDS for Ottsec
• 2008 – PST Canada – Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection with OSSEC
• 2007 – PST, Canada – Enterprise Log Management with Q1 Labs QRadar and OSSEC
• 2007 – AusCERT, Australia – Log-Based intrusion detection
• 2007 – CONFidence, Poland – Log-Based intrusion detection

Pics