Re: PCI DSS 11.1 - ".. deploying a wireless IDS/IPS..". Kismet+Snort?

[nelson () pangeia com br (Nelson Murilo)]

Kismet is a nice solution at all, but beholder[1] also could help. 

./nelson -murilo

[1] - http://www.beholderwireless.org 



On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:04:01AM -0700, Jeremy Bennett wrote:
> That requirement is focused on rogue detection and mitigation. If your WLAN
> can be moved out of scope for PCI (using a stateful firewall) then you are
> only required to scan for rogue devices.
> You can either do walk-around scans using something like kismet or
> NetStumbler or you can invest in a system with distributed sensors that can
> scan for the rogue devices all the time. In theory you could build this with
> low cost sensors running kismet and syslog and watch/filter the logs in a
> central location. You'd need a way of filtering out the known neighbors and
> internal devices and set up something to alert you, etc. I think you'll find
> that it is a lot less "free" than you would hope.