gosec VS OSQuery

6. Gosec

You can (and definitely should!) also use gosec.

The crypto source in Go is great, no complaints there. Lints like gosec even recommend using it when generating crypto entropy. Go did a good job here, and I expect Rust will do the same sometime after getrandom reaches 1.0 so the API questions are settled, plus whatever makes sense for the future-proofing the standard library needs.

i think there's https://github.com/securego/gosec linter

Various static analysis tools are available for the Go language, and existing static analysis tools can check general best practices. For example, gosec is a tool to check secure Go coding, and I use it myself. However, coding rules in software development are not only based on best practices, but can also be software- or team-specific. For example

What's the difference between this a https://github.com/securego/gosec?

A github actions workflow is provided to run go fmt, vet, test and gosec. An initial configuration for dependabot is also provided.

Besides what was mentioned, we use : staticcheck.io and https://github.com/securego/gosec

For application code, there are different SAST (Static Application Security Testing) tools like sonarqube, which provide vulnerability scanners for different languages, gosec for analyzing go code and detecting issues based on rules, linters, etc.

Perhaps the OP means OsQuery: https://github.com/osquery/osquery

OsQuery is an SQLite extension consisting of hundreds of virtual tables

There's at least one open data quality issue for `process_open_sockets` on macOS[1]. It's a few years old however and, if you aren't seeing that casting error, you probably aren't hitting it. But that's a good example of the kind of debt that's been built up over time.

(In terms of general purpose/flexible tooling, I'm not aware of a close replacement for osquery.)

[1]: https://github.com/osquery/osquery/issues/6319

The largest we have successfully deployed is on the OSQuery schema https://osquery.io/ which is 277 tables and lots of business context (malwares, vulnerabilities, Windows registry keys, etc).

From a self hosted standpoint OSQuery or Wazuh are your best bets for monitoring USB devices. Windows makes blocking really challenging and I’m not aware of any “free” solutions that attempt it.

Configure auditd to monitor host activity: https://izyknows.medium.com/linux-auditd-for-threat-detection-d06c8b941505 or osquery: https://osquery.io/ (or similar software: filebeat for example).

OS Query : Easily ask questions about your Linux, Windows, and macOS infrastructure

Osquery + Fleet. https://osquery.io/ https://fleetdm.com/, using the two allows you to build a query to answer what ever questions you (or an auditor) might have about your environment.