Re: Internal Network vs. External Network

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

HOME_NET is what you are defending.  EXTERNAL_NET is everything else.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Turnbough, Bradley E. <
bturnbough () belcan com> wrote:

>  I have two networks behind my firewall which have a IDS requirement.
> They are both “Internal” because they’re “inside” my company.
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> Snort operates on “Internal” and “External” networks.
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> Should I consider the “internal networks” the ones that require the IDS,
> and everything outside of them to be “external networks”?
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