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Re: Multi-sensor setup
From: Jack Pepper <pepperjack () afferentsecurity com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:38:45 -0500
Quoting Scott Elgram <SElgram () VerifPoint com>:
I would like to see the traffic that is attempting to get through as well just so I know what sort of attacks or whatever is being attempted against my firewall. As far as I know everything is hunky dory and anything malicious isn't getting through but it's a bit like standing at the edge of a dark hole. Sure, I'm fine where I am now but I have no iea what's in the hole.
Couldn't you just look at the firewall logs and see how much stuff is being dropped? There is no way to know what an outside agressor would have done if the firewall had let them in. So if the firewall stops the three way handshake, then the exploit never runs, and your outside sensor would detect nothing. I would submit that aside from portscans and other such trivia, the inside and outside should be the same. Unless you set up a honeypot. Maybe that is what you really want. so instead of dropping unwelcome traffic, the perimeter firewall sends it to the honey pot. Then you can see what the agressor would have done had you let them in. jp ---------------------------------------------------------------- @fferent Security Labs: Isolate/Insulate/Innovate http://www.afferentsecurity.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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