Re: snort as HIDS

["Davison, Charles Robert" <cdaviso1 () vols utk edu>]

Brian,

You really should look to something else as a HIDS, like:

http://www.la-samhna.de/samhain/
https://ossec.github.io/

Snort is specifically a NIDS and should be used as such. You won't be able to do FIM or log collection. I came into an 
AWS environment where they used snort as a HIDS Only for the fact that it checked a box for PCI. That same environment 
ended up switching to Samhain as a HIDS and funneled all the traffic in a VPC through snort as a NIDS. Hope fully this 
helps.

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Subject: [Snort-users] snort as HIDS
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We have a very basic configuration of snort deployed across our linux/unix systems, and we are being told that snort is 
not host intrustion tool, although that is what we have configured it to be.    Could I get an argument that supports 
the use of Snort on Linux/Solaris as a host intrustion tool, any supporting names of the features, software, etc. that 
prove its use as a HIDS?

Thank you!


Brian Lamont
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