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RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection
From: Chmielarski TOM-ATC090 <Tom.Chmielarski () motorola com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:32:25 -0500
To be really effective, I'd like to see a system that looks at packets coming in to the network, compares those to packets hitting specific servers, "knows" if the server is vulnerable to the specific attack and *then* sends an alert.
I dont know how _well_ it works, but if your an ISS shop then SiteProtector/Fusion is supposed to do this now. So is nCircle's IP360. Granted, this is a far cry from a universal management console with the logic to do this between products from multiple vendors. Nor are they cheap. But if you have all the products from one the same company this integration seems on the horizon, with several vendors working on it - so if it doesnt work well yet it should soon. (laughter) If you want the whole enchilada, and have the $$, there are a slew of Security Log Managers or <insert marking phrase name here> that are attempting to do this. Arcsight, intellitactics, Micromuse, e-Security, netforensics, and Open are vendors, to name a few at random, that have products that will take all of your data, put it into a uniform format, and apply correlation rules for you. The quality of this varies a lot between products, and seems related to price. Some of the products consider correlation to be simply noting that messages from two disparate logs have the same IP (src or dst). Other products have a more detailed correlation rule set engine, allowing you to say "IF events X, Y, and Z, but NOT A and from subnet 1.2.3.255 THEN generate alert Meta1." These later products often come with large pre-programmed generic rules to attempt and catch some common patterns. The ability to integrate IDS data and vulnerability scan data is lacking in most of these. $0.02 -Tom -----Original Message----- From: Paul Schmehl [mailto:pauls () utdallas edu] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 4:26 PM To: adam.w.hogan; Focus-Ids (E-mail) Subject: Re: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection How about a "user's" POV? To be really effective, I'd like to see a system that looks at packets coming in to the network, compares those to packets hitting specific servers, "knows" if the server is vulnerable to the specific attack and *then* sends an alert. To do this kind of work you would need: 1) a db (A) with the info on each server - OS, applications, vulnerabilities, etc. 2) a detection engine that matches the IP and attack sig to the entry in the db (A) with its own db (B) of sigs 3) an escalation procedure that recognizes that attack A was successful and attack B has begun and therefore alerts "more aggressively". I don't want to know if an attacker is trying an overflow attack on my IMAP server if my IMAP server isn't vulnerable to that attack. I could care less. I also don't want to know if some box somewhere with Code Red is hitting my network *unless* I have a box that's susceptible to Code Red. So it takes a combination of knowledge to alert "intelligently". 1) What is the attack? 2) Is the box vulnerable to that attack? 3) Did the attack reach that box? 4) Was the attack successful? --On Monday, June 23, 2003 02:25:40 PM -0400 "adam.w.hogan" <adam.w.hogan () delphi com> wrote:
It seems to me that this thread and the 'IDS is dead, etc' thread are both coming to same conclusions. Namely, much more work/research needs to be done in event correlation to efficiently, and effectively, use an IDS.
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Attend the Black Hat Briefings & Training, July 28 - 31 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical IT security event! 10 tracks, 15 training sessions, 1,800 delegates from 30 nations including all of the top experts, from CSO's to "underground" security specialists. See for yourself what the buzz is about! Early-bird registration ends July 3. This event will sell out. www.blackhat.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attend the Black Hat Briefings & Training, July 28 - 31 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical IT security event! 10 tracks, 15 training sessions, 1,800 delegates from 30 nations including all of the top experts, from CSO's to "underground" security specialists. See for yourself what the buzz is about! Early-bird registration ends July 3. This event will sell out. www.blackhat.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection, (continued)
- Re: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Blake Matheny (Jun 22)
- Re: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Blake Matheny (Jun 18)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Rob Shein (Jun 22)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Kohlenberg, Toby (Jun 18)
- Re: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection adam.w.hogan (Jun 23)
- Re: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Paul Schmehl (Jun 25)
- Re: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Randy Taylor (Jun 23)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection adam.w.hogan (Jun 25)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Schmehl, Paul L (Jun 25)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Scott M. Algatt (Jun 25)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Chmielarski TOM-ATC090 (Jun 25)
- Re: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Mike Coliton (Jun 26)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Sakaba (Jun 26)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Kohlenberg, Toby (Jun 26)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Chmielarski TOM-ATC090 (Jun 26)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Sekurity Wizard (Jun 26)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection David Markle (Jun 27)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Ron Gula (Jun 26)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Paul Schmehl (Jun 27)
- RE: Views and Correlation in Intrusion Detection Richard Ginski (Jun 27)