Re: Recommending an IDS system

["Bob Radvanovsky" <rsradvan () unixworks net>]

If you are looking for some "alternatives", there is a distribution called
"Sentinix", which is available FREE.  Go here for their web site:
http://www.sentinix.org.  It's SNORT with SNORTCenter, running ACID, Nagios,
Nagat, Cacti, and a few others.  Nicely done, nicely put together, and seems
to be (fairly) "stable".

If you'd like to see a demonstration of the product, I am hosting the demo
server:  http://sentinix-demo.unixworks.net

Logins are:

snortcenter/cacti: "admin", pw="temp1234"
nagios/nagat: "nagiosadmin", pw="temp1234"

The server is rebuilt weekly to keep its "freshness".  The server is
available openly and freely to anyone who wishes to use it.  The distro,
however, is only available through the Sentinix web site, or their mirrors.

Spread 'da woyd...  ;)

Cheers!

Bob Radvanovsky [/unixworks]
rsradvan(at)unixworks.com
"knowledge squared is information shared."


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Conner" <jconner () lrn com>
To: <JGrimshaw () ASAP com>
Cc: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:33 AM
Subject: RE: Recommending an IDS system


> I did an evaluation with Sourcefire and I have to say that I really liked
> it.  We are doing evals on other appliances before committing to anything.
>
> Sourcefire has three architectures to choose from; IBM, Intel, and Solaris
> (IIRC -- they might not have a solaris product but I believe they do).  We
> went with the Intel 22mb arch since it was the least expensive and our
> infrastructure doesn't require much hardware-wise to watch whats going on.
> Each architecture also has a speed associated with it which for higher
> speeds you'd pay more for the product.  The speeds were (again, IIRC)
22mb,
> 45mb, 100mb, and 1gb.  These speeds were the amount of throughput that the
> snort engine was tuned to be able to watch without dropping packets as
well
> as hardware for the gigE interface, I believe.  They have a configuration
> management machine that is capable of monitoring all of the sensors on
your
> network allowing administrators to view all goings-on from one central
> location.  That machine is a flat $17K.  It is not a sensor.  You can't
eval
> that machine either so it is difficult to say how well the product will do
> its job.  However, judging on the appliance and its abilities the config
> mgmt box is probably decent.
>
> We started the evaluation using the older 2.7 interface.  The 3.0
interface
> went prod while we were eval'ing the unit so I upgraded the machine from
2.7
> to 3.0 which was an extremely simple process.  I found the 3.0 interface
to
> be 100x's better than the 2.7 interface.  Out of the box the configuration
> of the product was simple.  Tuning is the same as any other IDS.  It was
> basically plug-n-play, though.  You can update the snort rules, which come
> from Sourefire, from the web interface.  You also get full admin access to
> the console of the machine should you decide to mess with things or want
to
> view logs or whatnot.  It was not necessary to ever really use the CLI,
> though.
>
> Overall, I really liked the product.  We are evaluating the Still Secure
IPS
> product now.
>
> ------------------------------------
> Jim Conner   | Systems Administrator
> 310.209.5487 | http://www.lrn.com
> LRN -- The Legal Knowledge Network
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JGrimshaw () ASAP com [mailto:JGrimshaw () ASAP com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:00 AM
> Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Recommending an IDS system
>
>
> Does anyone have any insight into the Sourcefire products?  They are Linux
> appliances  based on the Snort system.
>
>
>
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