Re: SNORT daily report

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

You should also nuke the rules that come with Ubuntu and use the free rules from http://www.snort.org/snort-rules

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On Jul 16, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Ian Bowers <iggdawg () gmail com> wrote:

> I'll second BASE.  It's very easy to set up, at least compared to other snort interfaces.  It may fall short of some 
> interfaces in terms of event management, but it's superb when used simply as a looking glass into the event database. 
>  Which is something one should get used to before attempting to tackle actual event management.   It's great for just 
> poking around and seeing what your sensor is telling you.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Jamie Riden <jamie.riden () gmail com> wrote:
> On 15 July 2012 23:31, Maneesh Patel <mnshptl32 () gmail com> wrote:
> > I am running an apache2 server on Ubuntu 10.04 (with ssh also
> > running).  I recently installed snort.  I apologize for this
> > elementary question, but I am having trouble understanding the daily
> > report e-mailed by snort.  There are various lines such as
> >
> >   COMMUNITY SIP TCP/IP message flooding directed to SIP proxy
> >   (ftp_telnet) FTP traffic encrypted
> >
> > some to my IP address, some from it.  I would like to know what I
> > should be looking out for, which lines in the report are innocuous and
> > which might require some countermeasures.  The snort man page does not
> > shed light on this, as far as I can tell.  Can someone please direct
> > me to some documentation that clarifies the daily report?
>
> "snort-stat" is the program that generates the report:
> http://docs.byteme.org.uk/man/en/snort-stat.8
>
> However, as Ian says, you'll need to check each alert to see if it's
> correct - which is a great way of learning about your network.
> Ideally, try to use some interface (I use base from secureideas, but
> that's a bit dated) where you can pull up the packet itself fairly
> easily. Google is very much your friend here :)
>
> cheers,
>  Jamie
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