Ossec vs Virgil Security: What are the differences?

Ossec: A Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It is a free, open-source host-based intrusion detection system. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response; Virgil Security: We make every developer into an applied cryptologist. Virgil consists of an open-source encryption library, which implements CMS and ECIES(including RSA schema), a Key Management API, and a cloud-based Key Management Service.

Ossec and Virgil Security can be primarily classified as "Security" tools.

Some of the features offered by Ossec are:

• Open Source HIDS
• Multiplatform HIDS
• PCI Compliance

On the other hand, Virgil Security provides the following key features:

• End-to-end encryption
• Passwordless authentication
• Data verification

Virgil Security is an open source tool with 139 GitHub stars and 12 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Virgil Security's open source repository on GitHub.