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Best Practices for external sensors
From: <jonasb () alum rpi edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:04:39 -0700
I currently have a Snort infrastructure set up on my internal network with several sensors managed via SnortCenter, logging to a centralized MySQL DB. I am looking to deploy a sensor on our outside network (off of a mirrored port on a switch). There are several firewalls with outside interfaces on this switch. I'm trying to get an idea of the best/most secure way to funnel alerts/logs back into the network to our centralized logging server. I thought of some type of VPN tunnel inbound, but my concern is that if the sensor were to be compromised, there would be a direct path into the network. I obviously don't want to multi-home the sensor inside/outside. Is my best bet just to open up SQL connectivity from this external sensor to the inside DB on the firewall and stream the alerts that way? If so, does anybody know of a way of any type of wrapper that would encrypt these alerts? Thanks Brad
Current thread:
- Best Practices for external sensors jonasb (Jun 17)
- Re: Best Practices for external sensors Todd_Pratt (Jun 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Best Practices for external sensors M. Morgan (Jun 17)
- RE: Best Practices for external sensors Truax, Shawn (MBS) (Jun 18)