Using snort to detect if your users are doing interesting things?
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Thu Jun 9 18:50:12 UTC 2005
>> My suggestion, in the case that you'll use snort, is to do some extensive
>> testing on a non-production network. Take the time to learn and
>> understand its functionality and intended purpose.
> Also figure out what you're going to do with the output. Do you have
> the resources to investigate apparent misbehavior? Remember that any
> IDS will have a certain false positive rate. Even for true positives,
> do you have the customer care resources to notify your users and (if
> appropriate) hold their hands while they disinfect their machines.
it's enough of a pita to clean up the syslogs from all the 25k/day
password attacjs per host, when one does not have password ssh
even enabled.
randy
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