Re: Log checking?

[ArkanoiD <ark () eltex net>]

nuqneH,

Sure we do. If ssh and ssl are permitted, it is mandatory to look for
statistics and destinations, otherwise users will use it to tunnel.
Actually, this applies to all protocols.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 04:05:24PM -0400, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> Back when I had real production firewalls, I'd log all the permitted
> traffic for a while, then do some analysis of the data to get a
> feel for things like tunnels, misbehaving users, etc.
>
> I've always felt that worrying about denied traffic was mostly for sport-
> if the firewall's policy blocked it, I wasn't all that worried about much
> more than overall trends- what got *through* the firewall seemed to be the
> more interesting set of things.
>
> I'm just wondering if the subset of folks who actually look at their
> firewalls mostly looks at denied traffic only, or if it's a common
> practice to look at the permitted stuff too?  If so, what sorts of things
> are you using, and are you finding anything interesting?
>
> Paul
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