Re: Choosing the best rules

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

On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 19:14 +0000, Richard Harman Jr (rharmanj) wrote:
> There's also the policy type in the rule metadata, which can be used
> by PulledPork.  Here's a couple blog posts on the policies, and
> pulledpork.
>
>
> http://blog.snort.org/2013/10/snort-vrt-default-ruleset-rebalancing.html
> http://blog.snort.org/2012/01/importance-of-pulledpork.html
>
>
> Richard
>
>
> From: SnortFan <SnortFan () yahoo com>
> Date: Monday, February 24, 2014 at 1:41 PM
> To: Michal Šutta <michal.sutta () gmail com>
> Cc: "snort-users () lists sourceforge net"
> <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Choosing the best rules
>
>
>
> That's a loaded question. What rules you enable should be dependent on
> your environment/network etc...  
>
>
> I use pulled pork and use the enablesid.conf and disablesid.conf to
> turn on categories and disable certain rules. It's a constant
> tuning.  Enabling all rules could put a heavy load on snort and flood
> where your storing the results (i.e. Base).  
>
>
> Hope that helps,
> Ed
>
>
> Sent from a mobile device. 
>
>
>         On Feb 24, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Michal Šutta
>         <michal.sutta () gmail com> wrote:
>         
>         Hello,
>         
>         which rules should be enabled when I want to test Snort ? I
>         downloaded the newest rules snortrules-snapshot-2960.tar.gz
>         but there are only around 4000 rules enabled. Is it a good
>         idea to enable them all ? Is there a quick way to configure
>         security policy usidng pulledpork or oinkmaster ?

What's in your environment?  You running a web server, load up the web
rules.  Running pop3?  Load those up....if you're not, then don't load
them.

James

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