Re: Snort as an anomalous behavior IDS

[Jason Haar <Jason.Haar () trimble co nz>]

On 04/03/2010 08:21 AM, Willst Mail wrote:
> Jason,
> Sounds like you did what I want to do.  Let's say outbound HTTP is
> fine but anything else is bad, would your ruleset look something like:
>
>   

I'm not sure what you're wanting to use it for, but for us it was about
picking up *successful* compromises of our DMZ servers. ie. someone
attacks a server, breaks in and the first thing they normally do is
download a toolkit - the rules are to pick up those events. They may use
HTTP to download that toolkit - so whitelisting all HTTP would mean you
won't detect the event.

We whitelist specific download types  - i.e. downloading from Sophos
webservers is OK, connecting to http://1.2.3.4/ is not. Takes some work
to get right - but it's worth it.


-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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