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Mark Stemm f547dc97ab Move falco engine to its own library.
Move the c++ and lua code implementing falco engine/falco common to its
own directory userspace/engine. It's compiled as a static library
libfalco_engine.a, and has its own CMakeLists.txt so it can be included
by other projects.

The engine's CMakeLists.txt has a add_subdirectory for the falco rules
directory, so including the engine also builds the rules.

The variables you need to set to use the engine's CMakeLists.txt are:

- CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX: the root directory below which everything is
  installed.
- FALCO_ETC_DIR: where to install the rules file.
- FALCO_SHARE_DIR: where to install lua code, relative to the
- install/package root.
- LUAJIT_INCLUDE: where to find header files for lua.
- FALCO_SINSP_LIBRARY: the library containing sinsp code. It will be
- considered a dependency of the engine.
- LPEG_LIB/LYAML_LIB/LIBYAML_LIB: locations for third-party libraries.
- FALCO_COMPONENT: if set, will be included as a part of any install()
  commands.

Instead of specifying /usr/share/falco in config_falco_*.h.in, use
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX and FALCO_SHARE_DIR.

The lua code for the engine has also moved, so the two lua source
directories (userspace/engine/lua and userspace/falco/lua) need to be
available separately via falco_common, so make it an argument to
falco_common::init.

As a part of making it easy to include in another project, also clean up
LPEG build/defs. Modify build-lpeg to add a PREFIX argument to allow for
object files/libraries being in an alternate location, and when building
lpeg, put object files in a build/ subdirectory.
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Sysdig Falco

####Latest release

v0.3.0 Read the change log

Dev Branch: Build Status
Master Branch: Build Status

Overview

Sysdig Falco is a behavioral activity monitor designed to detect anomalous activity in your applications. Powered by sysdigs system call capture infrastructure, falco lets you continuously monitor and detect container, application, host, and network activity... all in one place, from one source of data, with one set of rules.

What kind of behaviors can Falco detect?

Falco can detect and alert on any behavior that involves making Linux system calls. Thanks to Sysdig's core decoding and state tracking functionality, falco alerts can be triggered by the use of specific system calls, their arguments, and by properties of the calling process. For example, you can easily detect things like:

  • A shell is run inside a container
  • A server process spawns a child process of an unexpected type
  • Unexpected read of a sensitive file (like /etc/shadow)
  • A non-device file is written to /dev
  • A standard system binary (like ls) makes an outbound network connection

Documentation

[Visit the wiki] (https://github.com/draios/falco/wiki) for full documentation on falco.

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License Terms

Falco is licensed to you under the GPL 2.0 open source license.

Contributor License Agreements

###Background As we did for sysdig, we are formalizing the way that we accept contributions of code from the contributing community. We must now ask that contributions to falco be provided subject to the terms and conditions of a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). The CLA comes in two forms, applicable to contributions by individuals, or by legal entities such as corporations and their employees. We recognize that entering into a CLA with us involves real consideration on your part, and weve tried to make this process as clear and simple as possible.

Weve modeled our CLA off of industry standards, such as the CLA used by Kubernetes. Note that this agreement is not a transfer of copyright ownership, this simply is a license agreement for contributions, intended to clarify the intellectual property license granted with contributions from any person or entity. It is for your protection as a contributor as well as the protection of falco; it does not change your rights to use your own contributions for any other purpose.

For some background on why contributor license agreements are necessary, you can read FAQs from many other open source projects:

As always, we are grateful for your past and present contributions to falco.

###What do I need to do in order to contribute code?

Individual contributions: Individuals who wish to make contributions must review the Individual Contributor License Agreement and indicate agreement by adding the following line to every GIT commit message:

falco-CLA-1.0-signed-off-by: Joe Smith joe.smith@email.com

Use your real name; pseudonyms or anonymous contributions are not allowed.

Corporate contributions: Employees of corporations, members of LLCs or LLPs, or others acting on behalf of a contributing entity, must review the Corporate Contributor License Agreement, must be an authorized representative of the contributing entity, and indicate agreement to it on behalf of the contributing entity by adding the following lines to every GIT commit message:

 falco-CLA-1.0-contributing-entity: Full Legal Name of Entity
 falco-CLA-1.0-signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@email.com>

Use a real name of a natural person who is an authorized representative of the contributing entity; pseudonyms or anonymous contributions are not allowed.