Re: snort web interface

[Martin Holste <mcholste () gmail com>]

I agree with Jason:  BASE is dead and clunky, and not all that easy to
install.  If you are looking for a dead simple install with no traffic
integration, then I suggest having Snort (or barnyard) output to
syslog and send it to a personal version of Splunk, which is free.
You can get that up and running in about five minutes.  However,
Snorby is superior and worth putting a few more (but not too many
more) minutes of time because you get the packet integration.  In my
opinion, unless you have access to the traffic you are inspecting with
your IDS in some sort of raw form, you are operating a crippled
installation and have no way to make informed decisions about good or
bad events on the network.

I will also mention that Snorby integrates with my
StreamDB.googlecode.com project which is OpenFPC compatible, but
several orders of magnitude faster than OpenFPC.  So my recommendation
would be to use Snorby with StreamDB.  Sguil is rock solid, but pcap
retrieval is just too slow for my taste, and so that precludes running
Squert.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Jason Meller <jason.meller () gmail com> wrote:
> Alexus,
> Full disclosure, I work with Mephux on Snorby but I don't think James or
> Alex correctly or accurately answered your question, so I wanted to throw in
> my $0.02.
>
> BASE is a dead project and hasn't had a new feature pushed since 2008 (3
> years ago). It doesn't plug in with any of the packet capture frameworks out
> there and its interface is disorganized compared to the other available
> front-ends. It's dead, let's move on. Supporting a dead open-source project
> hurts the actively developed efforts out there.
>
> Squert is a bad ass project in active development. One thing James didn't
> mention though is that it requires SQUIL which utilizes an entirely
> different DB schema than the ones provided by the snort/barnyard2 db output
> plugins. SQUIL requires a bit more expertise to get up and running than your
> standard Snort + front-end solution. If you want to go that route Squert is
> a good SGUIL companion.
>
> Snorby is a RECENT development in the community, It was first introduced in
> 2009 and has far surpassed BASE in functionality. I work with Mephux
> developing Snorby and here are some of the reasons I would recommend it to
> anyone:
>
> It's actively developed by two passionate NSM analysts.
> It allows you to pivot on datapoints in the events without interrupting
> analyst's thought process (rule content, related alerts, ip arin/whois data)
> It integrates with OpenFPC and Solera DeepSee products for Full Packet
> Capture.
> It has exportable and beautiful PDF reports and metrics.
>
> The security industry is evolving so rapidly that choosing a dead project
> like BASE for your SOC, MSSP, CIRT, or even personal use is just setting you
> up for failure.
>
> Other people agree with this assessment and that is why the project has been
> accepted into Security Onion Distro and featured on The Change Log.
> Other analysts are excited about Snorby as well. Check out these articles:
>
> http://beboblog.johnbebo.com/2011/08/13/snorby-as-ids.aspx
> http://www.aldeid.com/wiki/An-interesting-forensics-analysis
>
> If you want to check out Snorby check out our live demo at
> http://demo.snorby.org (u: demo () snorby org, p: snorby)
> If you want to test out Snorby in your environment, check out Insta-Snorby
> (www.snorby.org), it's a turn-key Snorby.
> Enjoy the project and please support us!
> Mephux and Terracatta
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:34 PM, James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net> wrote:
> > On 8/23/11 5:04 PM, "alexus" <alexus () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering what's popular/good web interfaces these days?
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://alexus.org/
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> > BASE seems to give the maximum amount of information/reports vs. ease of
> > install.  SQueRT is awesome, but does require a few extra processes
> > running.  Snorby is "ok"...not very good for reports at least in my
> > experience.  For SQueRT and Snorby, it's pretty crucial that you have a
> > tuned snort install since you don't have an easy method to delete entries.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
> >
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