Re: Getting more context in snort alerts.

[Martin Holste <mcholste () gmail com>]

All listed are fine options--I'll add one more: log all web requests
with httpry so that you can quickly grep for the HTTP request/response
involved with an alert, because let's face it, the vast majority of
alerts that need investigating are web-related.  httpry uses
surprisingly few resources, so it makes a great Snort companion.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Jefferson, Shawn
<Shawn.Jefferson () bcferries com> wrote:
> Sguil is supposed to be quite good for this.  I personally am actually doing what you describe (actually using 
> Daemonlogger and some custom scripts to gzip, store, and rollover the packet captures.)  I am moving towards OpenPFC 
> though in the next couple of weeks.
>
>
>
> From: sudhakar govindavajhala [mailto:sudhakarg79spam () gmail com]
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:00 AM
> To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: [Snort-users] Getting more context in snort alerts.
>
>
> Hi Snort folks,
>
>
> When Snort identifies something as an attack, it currently only shows me the single packet that triggered the alarm. 
> It does not show me enough context to make an informed decision.
>
>
> Do you have any suggestions on how I could get more context?  Is this something that Snort supports relatively out of 
> the box or do I have to write lots of code?   A silly option would be to use tcpdump to log all packets and then 
> search the logs.    Is there a better approach?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sudhakar.
>
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