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New Classification System Finalization
From: Matthew Jonkman <jonkman () emergingthreatspro com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:28:19 -0500
As you may recall, Alienvault (http://www.alienvault.com), the home of OSSIM, has very generously offered to the snort and suricata communities the classification system they've developed to better categorize and react to IDS events. We're excited about this, especially in suricata, and we have already begun the changes required to allow us at Emerging Threats Pro and Emerging Threats Open to distribute the rulesets in both forms. We had called an end to comments by Jan 12, but discussion has continued mostly privately. A few points to iron out yet: 1. Sourcefire has proposed to change all underscores to dashes. I feel the underscores are an important differentiator. But older snort's may not handle that well. Suricata will handle them fine. But having differing systems is going to be a challenge of course. 2. Sourcefire also proposes to lower-case everything. Shouldn't be a big deal if no one objects. 3. We also need to assign priorities to the events. Sourcefire in the link below has proposed how they might look. We need feedback there. Perhaps we put up a simple web app to let folks go through and prioritize and we can take the average over a few weeks of input? ----------- Initial posts are here: http://blog.emergingthreatspro.com/2010/12/new-classification-system-proposal.html and here: http://blog.snort.org/2011/01/classification-comments.html The actual system is here as proposed by Alienvault: http://www.emergingthreats.net/new_classifications_v1.txt And a version proposed by Sourcefire. http://www.snort.org/assets/157/classifications.txt ----------- I propose these steps as a way forward: 1. Lets get more feedback on the lists (the snort lists, the oisf lists, and the emerging lists). 2. We have an OISF brainstorming session at RSA in a week and a half (http://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/index.php/component/content/article/34-general-content/109-the-next-oisf-brainstorming-meeting) This is on the agenda there, lets get some more discussion and we will summarize this on the lists Lets call the End of February the final date, adopt an official classification.conf and move forward! Matt ---------------------------------------------------- Matthew Jonkman Emergingthreats.net Emerging Threats Pro Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) Phone 765-807-8630 Fax 312-264-0205 http://www.emergingthreatspro.com http://www.openinfosecfoundation.org ---------------------------------------------------- PGP: http://www.jonkmans.com/mattjonkman.asc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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- Re: [Snort-sigs] New Classification System Finalization Joel Esler (Jan 31)
- Re: [Snort-sigs] New Classification System Finalization Matthew Jonkman (Jan 31)
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