Re: Alerting in near-real-time

["Paul Halliday" <paul.halliday () gmail com>]

David,

You can easily be up and running in under ten minutes. As Bamm said, Sguil
will do most of the work for you on startup.

All you need to do is modify the configuration scripts to suit your
environment. See the install docs.

As for p0f, thats a quick install.

I wouldn't worry about SANCP for now (you will see reference to it in the
config files) you can easily add that functionality after you have seen what
Sguil has to offer.

If you have any problems you can get free premium support from the author
himself. Just visit #snort-gui on irc.freenode.net and ask for Bamm

;)

On 5/10/07, David.Ryan () quintiles com <David.Ryan () quintiles com> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I have looked at sguil (following your post) and I
> think it may cover what I am looking for, but the install documentation
> indicates relations to lots of other packages such as NSM and p0f and
> includes a lot of detail on setting up the snort install, logging to what
> looks like another database (i.e. a sguil database rather than the initial
> snort one which is included in the snort documentation).
>
> I don't mind re-installing snort from scratch if necessary, but I'm trying
> towork forward from an existing snort install and add this alerting
> function.  Do you know of any documentation covering adding sguil to an
> existing install, or whether I just need the exisiting database ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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> David Ryan
> IT Security Engineer, Global IT Security
> Quintiles, Global IT - Infrastructure, QDUB
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>  *"Paul Halliday" <paul.halliday () gmail com>*
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> 10/05/2007 16:48
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> "David.Ryan () quintiles com" <David.Ryan () quintiles com>  cc
> snort-users () lists sourceforge net  Subject
> Re: [Snort-users] Alerting in near-real-time
>
>
>
>
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> http://sguil.sourceforge.net/
>
> On 5/10/07, David.Ryan () quintiles com <David.Ryan () quintiles com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to all on the list for their help to date.
> >
> > I am still trying to get my head around something which I still can't
> > understand in the overall snort model and I'm hoping someone can set me
> > straight on what I'm missing (or what I'm assuming incorrectly).  I may
> have
> > asked this to the list before, but I can't find it.  Apologies if I'm
> asking
> > the same question again.
> >
> > What I have got so far . . .  snort sniffs packets, matches those
> packets
> > against rules and can log the results via a variety of output plugins to
> > various repositories.  It can log directly to a variety of databases,
> but
> > from an optimisation point of view it is better to use unified output,
> pass
> > that to something like barnyard and have *it* log to the database.  Net
> > result is that events are logged in the database.  This appears to be
> the
> > end of snorts involvement in the process from what I can see.
> >
> > With the data now in the database something else needs to process it
> further
> > if any value is to come out of the data.  There are various apps such as
> > BASE, snortnotify, snortsnarf, etc .. . . which will either summarise
> the
> > data and mail it out or else present it via a webpage for analysis.  The
> > problem I'm thinking of is that this is fine for trending or where there
> is
> > someone looking at the data to review recent traffic, but I don't see
> how
> > this can provide any sort of near-real-time alerting.
> >
> > Say for example I am happy to look through reports every morning at 0900
> to
> > see what happened yesterday, but I *really* *really* want to get an SNMP
> or
> > SMTP alert when rule # 3423 is triggered or the string "bad stuff" is
> > spotted.  What do people use for this type of scenario ?  I understand
> that
> > it would probably involve running a query against the database every X
> > minutes and acting on the results of the query, but I can't understand
> how
> > there aren't a set of apps out there (or at least ones I can find) that
> do
> > this type of thing as I would have thought it was a common requirement.
> >
> > David
> > =================================
> >  David Ryan
> >  IT Security Engineer, Global IT Security
> >  Quintiles, Global IT - Infrastructure, QDUB
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