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Message: 5 - What's the best setup
From: "Joe Pampel" <joe () ardsley com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:51:39 -0400
If it was me, and policy would allow... I would monitor the port that the border router is on. You're not "in between" anything this way.. parallel really. I don't think there is al ot to be gained from monitoring all the servers individually or from the possible downside of trying to mirror many ports at once. For example, I just monitor the ports where my firewalls hit their switches.. point being find the "choke" point and monitor that. Hopefully they will let you do that. If HR or whoever has policy issues, write your rulebase to ignore any hosts they have issues with and perhaps submit your snort.conf for eval every month or each quarter or whatever makes them happy that you're not going KGB on them.. or give them an ACID login so they can see for themselves you are not detecting the porn they download.. ;-) if you can't trust the security guy, you have IMHO some other organizational issues there.. ;-) Good luck!! hth Joe ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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