OpenBSM is an open source implementation of
Sun
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's Basic Security Module (BSM) Audit
API
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and file format. BSM, which is a system used for auditing, describes a set of system call and library interfaces for managing audit records as well as a token stream file format that permits extensible and generalized
audit trail
An audit trail (also called audit log) is a security-relevant chronological record, set of records, and/or destination and source of records that provide documentary evidence of the sequence of activities that have affected at any time a specific ...
processing.
OpenBSM includes system include files appropriate for inclusion in an
operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also in ...
implementation of Audit, libbsm, an implementation of the BSM library interfaces for generating, parsing, and managing audit records, auditreduce and praudit, audit reduction and printing tools, API documentation, and sample configuration files. Works in progress include extensions to the libbsm API to support easier audit trail analysis, including a pattern matching library.
OpenBSM is derived from the BSM audit implementation found in
Apple
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's open source
Darwin operating system, which upon request, Apple
relicensed under a
BSD licence
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to allow for integration into
FreeBSD
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and other systems. The Darwin BSM implementation was created by
McAfee Research under contract to Apple, and has since been extensively extended by the volunteer
TrustedBSD
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team. OpenBSM is included in FreeBSD as of version 6.2 and later, and has been announced as a Mac OS X Snow Leopard feature.
External links
TrustedBSD: OpenBSMApple Computer: Common Criteria
BSD software
Operating system security
Software using the BSD license
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