Re: Using snort to detect if your users are doing interesting things?

[Kim Onnel <karim.adel () gmail com>]

How about project Darknet and sinkholes and monitoring dark ip space, worms 
and botnets usually scans blindly right and left, so there is a good chance 
you will get a glimpse on infected hosts if thats what you want, i catch 
infected hosts by looking at apache access logs and i see alot of scans,

and Randy for that i change the ssh port to a higher one :)

On 6/9/05, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
> > > My suggestion, in the case that you'll use snort, is to do some 
> extensive
> > > testing on a non-production network. Take the time to learn and
> > > understand its functionality and intended purpose.
> > Also figure out what you're going to do with the output. Do you have
> > the resources to investigate apparent misbehavior? Remember that any
> > IDS will have a certain false positive rate. Even for true positives,
> > do you have the customer care resources to notify your users and (if
> > appropriate) hold their hands while they disinfect their machines.
>
> it's enough of a pita to clean up the syslogs from all the 25k/day
> password attacjs per host, when one does not have password ssh
> even enabled.
>
> randy