Re: Setting up Arcsight/Tripwire

["Randal T. Rioux" <randy () procyonlabs com>]

On Tue, April 7, 2009 4:15 am, venkatesh.selvaraju () gmail com wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has any standard rules and policies which can
> be instantly deployed & added to Arcsight ESM for monitoring Windows,
> UNIX, database and network devices. I understand the rules vary and are
> specific to the OS and n/w devices. We have to setup the rules and
> commission Arcsight in our company. If anyone has prior hands-on using
> Arcsight or if you have any literature, please share.  Also, if you have
> any docs on how to setup rules on Tripwire tool for file integrity
> checking please share the information. Thank you in advance.

ArcSight doesn't so much depend on rules, like an IDS. The agents just
grab log/event data and the main engine fondles it to make pretty charts
and correlations. The real benefit is in writing/modifying policies to get
you the info you want. Write me offlist if you'd like help with anything
ArcSight.

As for Tripwire, that very much depends on your environment. Here is a
good tutorial:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8758

Also, if you haven't already implemented Tripwire, give Osiris and Samhain
a look.

Randy