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Facebook Enhances Osquery Security Analysis Platform

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jul 21, 2015

Facebook is enhancing its open-source osquery security framework with new features that make it easier for users to organize and gain insight from operating system information.

Osquery, which Facebook announced in October 2014, makes OS information look like a standard SQL database that can be queried to gain operational and security insight

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Sean Michael Kerner

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