Hashing Algorithms and creating a simple file integrity monitor (FIM)

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    A basic FIM (File Integrity Monitor)

  • In our application, the input will be the digital thumbprint of each file in the directory that we would like to monitor for changes, the outputted hashes will be stored in a file to be then later compared to a newly calculated hash; If they're equal, that means no changes have been made to the file, else there has been changes. We will also cover the cases where a file is deleted or a new file is created. Here's a chart to help you understand the functioning of the scripts we are about to see Now for the code, this step-by-step guide will be in bash (the Bourne Again SHell) which is a widely used shell scripting language for automating tasks, but you can also find the python or Powershell version on the github page

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