Intrusion Detection recommendations

Sat Feb 14 05:42:30 UTC 2015

German Shepherd Dogs are wonderful intrusion detection devices.  In a lot of cases they also server as excellent intrusion prevention devices as well.

(Must be Friday night)
:-)

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Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.  Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.  Sometimes theory and practice are combined:  nothing works and no one knows why.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Andy Ringsmuth
>Sent: Friday, 13 February, 2015 10:40
>To: NANOG
>Subject: Intrusion Detection recommendations
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>NANOG'ers,
>
>I've been tasked by our company president to learn about, investigate and
>recommend an intrusion detection system for our company.
>
>We're a smaller outfit, less than 100 employees, entirely Apple-based.
>Macs, iPhones, some Mac Mini servers, etc., and a fiber connection to the
>world. We are protected by a FreeBSD firewall setup, and we stay current
>on updates/patches from Apple and FreeBSD, but that's as far as my
>expertise goes.
>
>Initially, what do people recommend for:
>
>1. Crash course in intrusion detection as a whole
>2. Suggestions or recommendations for intrusion detection hardware or
>software
>3. Other things I'm likely overlooking
>
>Thank you all in advance for your wisdom.
>
>
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>Andy Ringsmuth
>andy at newslink.com
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