RE: Need recommendations about IDS Systems

["Moeckel, Sharon" <smoeckel () co bucks pa us>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Heitz [mailto:mikeheitz () upshotmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:19 AM
To: Chris Berry; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Need recommendations about IDS Systems


Chris,

Just out of curiosity.... I've never found Snort for the Windows
platform. Do you have a link for this?

mike heitz ** sr it manager ** UPSHOT
312-943-0900 x5190

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Berry [mailto:compjma () hotmail com] 
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:01 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Need recommendations about IDS Systems

> From: "Jennifer Fountain" <JFountain () rbinc com>
> I have been looking at a couple IDS systems and reading reviews. My
> head
> hurts :)  Any recommendations ?  I want something to sit inside my
> network, in the DMZ and outside.  I want it to also email me and send
> information to my syslog server.  OS doesn't matter. I can do nt or
> linux.

I've heard very good things about SNORT, and it's hard to beat free, but
I 
haven't used it yet myself.  It runs on both win and lin systems so 
compatibility shouldn't be the deciding factor.

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

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