Re: Best practices dealing with alerts

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

On Jul 25, 2012, at 12:01 AM, Lahav Savir <lahavs () emind co> wrote:

> I'm not a security expert, but I have a snort deployment in passive mode that generates different type of alerts.
>
> I wanted to get your advice how to deal with this alerts, what are real attacks, what are just noise ?

That's an extremely complex question. It involves the knowledge of how traffic works, and the review of Snorts ruleset 
to understand what you are looking at. 

> is there a best practice document somewhere ? 
> Can snort commercial support can help in defining the security level ?

It can, yes. Let me know if you need a contact for that off list. 
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