RE: only the "important stuff"

[SN ORT <snort_on_acid () yahoo com>]

What?! You mean, send him all of the positive alerts? 
 Impossible without human intervention/correlation.
You could move some sensors back or set some variables
that look at only important machines, or even setup
another instance of Snort that runs only custom
signatures you're sure never produce false
positives/negative..etc, but then you could very well
miss some legitimate break-ins. You could also try to
customize the IDS so that each signature is customized
to vulnerable servers. IOW, why would I want to
receive an IIS vulnerability alert when my server is
running apache? So I would set a var
$apache_servers=IPaddress(range) and then set each
Apache signature to destination = "$apache_servers",
and at the same time have the IIS signatures only
relate to IIS servers. Wow, there's a concept. 


Nah, you'd have to have a brain look at those first,
and then send them to your presidente (although
products like from ISS contain correlation
capabilities)

Cheese!

Marc


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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:34:56 -0700
From: Steven Crandell <steven.crandell () gmail com>
Reply-To: Steven Crandell <steven.crandell () gmail com>
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] only the "important stuff"

Hi all,

I have snort running the way I want it to run, etc. 
I'm also using
logcheck to watch the logs and email me when someone
exceeds my
thresholds.  Anyway, I'm pretty satisfied with how all
of that is
working.

This morning the president of the co. has asked that
he -not- receive
the day to day alerts and would only like to receive
alerts on
"successful" intrusions.

Are there certain rules that would never be triggered
unless someone
actually gets into a monitored system?  Or anything
along those lines?

I know this is a little off the wall, but any
help/suggestions would
be greatly appreciated.

regards,
-- 
Steven Crandell
steven.crandell () gmail com



                
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