Re: IPTables Logging

[Anwar Khan <anwarrhce () gmail com>]

You should log all the packets incoming and outgoing along with dropped.
You may limit the logs on log file size or day basis log rotation.

Most of the SIEM may be supporting iptables, as far as i know with
ArcSight you can do it.


On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Thugzclub Thugzclub
<thugzclub () googlemail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are implementing IP Tables on the servers as Host Based Firewall
> and these have be integrated into the SIEM. What are the best
> practices for integrating IPTables into a SIEM solution.
>
> Questions are :
> 1 - Should we be logging both incoming and outgoing?
> 2 - Should we be logging dropped packets?
> 3 - Assume we log it, whats the situation with regards to limiting the
> log rate? I
> Cheers
>
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