Re: Snort Alert Processing Survey

[Jack Pepper <pepperjack () afferentsecurity com>]

I wrote my own output processor that talks to an escalation handler (also
home grown).

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:29 AM, <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:

> On 03/14/2017 07:50 PM, James Lay wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 13:48 -0700, m-one wrote:
> > > 1.  I'm wondering how the vast millions of Snort Users are monitoring
> > > Snort alerts?  So please, let's here it -- how are you answering the
> > > question is my Snort application effective?  Where do you look to
> > > examine Snort Alerts?
> > tail -f snort.fast
> > sguil for interesting hits (doesn't show portscany noise)
>
> over here we tail the alert file and parse it with an application... that
> application could report to a database if one desired to go that route...
> our
> app is an active response tool that issues IP blocking rules based on its
> configuration... tuning snort and the app is about the worst part but once
> tuned, everything is very nice...
>
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