ASTRID Security Dashboard

The ASTRID Security Dashboard based on python3.6 and Django3.0.1.

Main Features:

Current release v2.0 🎉

• show current service topology
• show/edit/manage security policies (still under definition)
• show real-time and historical data
• show/edit local agents and their configuration
• show/edit/manage list of detection algorithms
• show/edit/manage inspection programs
• receive notifications/alerts from algorithms

Installation

Virtual Environment

It is recommended to use a virtual environment to install the requirements. You can create one for example by running the following commands (you should have the python3-dev, python3-pip and python3-venv system packages installed):

python3 -m venv my-venv
source my-venv/bin/activate

or use any other python virtual environment/management, e.g.

• https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/
• https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/
• https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

Install via pip:

pip install -Ur requirements.txt

If you do NOT have pip, please refer to the pip project for installation:

https://pypi.org/project/pip/

Configuration

Most configuration can be modified in astrid/settings.py.

For general Django settings please refer to the Django project:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/settings/

Run

Modify astrid/settings.py with your database settings or use the default sqlite3.

Create the database

You can make the initial sqlite3 database with the following commands in the terminal:

python manage.py migrate

Create a super user

python manage.py createsuperuser

Running the Django server

python manage.py runserver

You should be able to visit the dashboard and administration in your browser:

• http://127.0.0.1:8000/dashboard
• http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin

Running in production

It is recommended to run the Django application with a WSGI HTTP server behind a reverse proxy, for example gunicorn https://gunicorn.org/ and nginx https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/web-server/reverse-proxy/ to handle TLS.

For more information on deployment please refer to:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/deployment/

Running on Kubernetes

To deploy and run the dashboard in Kubernetes you can use the dashboard.yaml all-in-one deployment file.

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