Re: Fine tuning Snort

["James Lay" <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>]

Thanks Josh..I will give that a go.

James

>  On 10/7/2010 2:02 PM, James Lay wrote:
> > Kevin and Waldo, you gents are treasures…I will get to work and report
> > my results…thank you much!
> >
> > james
> >
> > From: Kevin Ross <kevross33 () googlemail com
> > <mailto:kevross33 () googlemail com>>
> > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:55:43 +0100
> > To: James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net
> > <mailto:jlay () slave-tothe-box net>>, Snort
> > <snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> > <mailto:snort-users () lists sourceforge net>>
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Fine tuning Snort
> >
> > Well what you can do is:
> >
> > - Use threshold.conf to supress alerts entirely from certain sources
> > or destinations and limit the amount of alerts it will fire too. Read
> > the examples in threshold.conf and put them in your enviroment. If
> > there is specific sources and destinations you can filter this way
> >
> > - Use oinkmaster or pulled pork to disable and enable rules from VRT
> > and emergingthreats.net <http://emergingthreats.net> that you need.
> > Just start by not including rules files for things you do not have and
> > then go through the rules files taking down the sids to disable and
> > then have oinkmaster or pulled pork scheduled by cron to run an update.
>
> I have a small tool written in Perl called Pigsty that will automate
> finding any sigs in your enabled ruleset that match a pattern. The tool
> will output a list of disablesid lines that you can then drop into your
> oinkmaster.conf file or have the tool directly append the file. This
> makes cleaning up your current rules much easier. You could probably
> modify the oinkmaster perl script to run Pigsty just after the latests
> sigs are downloaded and before the routine for commenting out disabled
> sids completes.
>
> Find it at http://zombietango.com/blog/tools/
>
> ZT
>
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