A useful oversimplification for network surveillance?

Thu Aug 25 15:47:56 UTC 2005

At 3:30 PM +0000 8/25/05, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>Howard,
>
>I'd most certainly use an IDS (i.e. SNORT) for this instead of
>netflow....

My concern is scalability, remembering I'm talking about the 
surveillance level. My preliminary sense is that SNORT is great in a 
sinkhole, but isn't as scalable as a reasonable NetFlow export.

>
>- ferg
>
>-- "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb at gettcomm.com> wrote:
>
>       NetFlow is the key to analyzing traffic patterns outside the router,
>       looking for DDoS signatures when known, and for traffic anomalies that
>       may become DDoS.