RE: IDS evaluation

From: Reverman, Peter C (peter.c.reverman@intel.com)
Date: 08/22/02


From: "Reverman, Peter C" <peter.c.reverman@intel.com>
To: "'Frank Smith'" <fsmith@hoovers.com>, Johannes Ullrich <jullrich@euclidian.com>, Saad Kadhi <bsdguy@docisland.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:31:18 -0700

Have you looked at www.activeworx.com for the an open source central
management console for multi-sensor SNORT signature management. It might
help.
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Smith [mailto:fsmith@hoovers.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 9:36 AM
To: Johannes Ullrich; Saad Kadhi
Cc: focus-ids@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: IDS evaluation

--On Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:25:41 -0400 Johannes Ullrich
<jullrich@euclidian.com> wrote:

>> I'm a Snort fan but deploying 12 of them with central management needs
>> good expertise and multi-tool gluying skills.
>
> same here (snort fan). But I guess if you are comparing it to
> commercial products like Dragon, you should consider the
> commercial/supported version of snort from Sourcefire. I haven't
> had a chance to use it yet. But I understand they offer a central
> management console and a 'plug and play' appliance (hardware with
> pre-installed snort sensor).

Depending on the wheres and hows of your snort deployment, you might
want to look at the snort-mysql-acid combination for central reporting.

Frank



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  • Re: IDS evaluation
    ... >>> I'm a Snort fan but deploying 12 of them with central management needs ... >> same here (snort fan). ... >> commercial products like Dragon, ... > Depending on the wheres and hows of your snort deployment, ...
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