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RE: Recommending an IDS system
From: "Buyer Jr, David" <DBuyer () KaleidaHealth Org>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:29:01 -0500
We have been using Cisco IDS systems for a number of years and recently switched over to the new ISS Proventia Series appliances. I have worked with both extensively and I have to say that the ISS solution is MUCH better than the Cisco solution. Some of the big differences are that the ISS people get out a sig about 2 weeks before Cisco even touches it. Also, the Cisco sensors don't have a way of automatically downloading and installing the new sigs. Its all a manual process that is a pain in the A** Reporting is much much better and faster on the ISS as well. There are many more advantages of going with ISS so if you need anymore info email me. I still have all my data sheets that I did when we were testing all the solutions. PS - go with the inline stuff (IPS). Snort also has an inline patch available. David Buyer -----Original Message----- From: Josh Mills [mailto:JMills () cnbwaco com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:19 PM To: Reza Kordi; Andy Cuff; security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: RE: Recommending an IDS system I have implemented a new cisco ids solution and i am very pleased with it! the signatures are highly tunable for a commercial package and it seems to be pretty stable. the sensor itself runs on redhat so maybe it isnt that much different than snort. -----Original Message----- From: Reza Kordi [mailto:rk () 4unet net] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:03 PM To: 'Andy Cuff'; security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: RE: Recommending an IDS system Hi Andy How good can vendor independant IDS solutions (Specially Opensource) work in an Enterprise Cisco Based network? What do you think about Cisco IDS solutions? Best Regards Mit freundlichen GrĂ¼ssen Meilleures Salutations med vennlig hilsen Reza Kordi -----Original Message----- From: Andy Cuff [mailto:lists () securitywizardry com] Sent: Samstag, 28. Februar 2004 11:21 To: Matthew MacAulay; security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Recommending an IDS system Importance: Low Hi Mat, I was faced with the same dilemma some years back, my site below details the various technologies you can bring to bear. I also wrote an article for SecurityFocus regarding deploying IDS from a vendor neutral standpoint http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1754 I'd suggest starting simply and building up but always keep the defence in depth end goal in sight. Also, don't forget that in addition to detecting attacks you have to react to them also. If you need further advice offlist don't hesitate to ask. Finally, if you go down the Network IPS route there are 2 main varieties; rate based and content based, I refer to the former as Attack Mitigation Systems they fill an important role but IMHO are not IPS. Ideally you should have both varieties. There are some products that claim to do both, but ..... take care -andy Talisker Security Tools Directory http://www.securitywizardry.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew MacAulay" <matthew.macaulay () cobweb couk> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:36 PM Subject: Recommending an IDS system
Hello, I have been tasked with looking at and recommending an IDS system for my company. I have been looking at open source products (Snort) which seems to be a very good system with a lot of community support. My problem is we are an ASP. We want connections to be able to reach our systems for the services we provide. I want to be able to monitor over 100 internet facing servers (behind Firewalls and load balancers) and alert / and possibly block non normal traffic / detected attack signatures. After doing some reading into different methods IDS v IPS, Host v Network, I favour a combination, we have at anyone time up to 50,000 concurrent connections to our systems so I have a problem of scale. One Snort box is just not going to cut it! Looking at how I can "tap" into the network traffic has been partially solved by using IDSVLANS which is supported by our Switch hardware. (Nortel 8600) So an IDSVLAN could be setup for each of our existing VLANS and a couple of load balanced IDS boxes per IDSVLAN to alert to a central server to produce reports / alert / wake people up.... Sounds great. Though I have not looked at it in as much detail as network based IDS, I expect I can get a hosts based IDS to also alert (SNMP or what ever) to a central server to again produce reports / alerts / wake people up. I am interested to here what systems you use to do IDS / IPS. Do you have in place IDS systems for platforms of a larger or similar scale? I would like to here from people have who have faced similar challenges
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Current thread:
- Re: Recommending an IDS system Andy Cuff (Mar 01)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Reza Kordi (Mar 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Josh Mills (Mar 02)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Daniel Cid (Mar 03)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system AJ Butcher, Information Systems and Computing (Mar 04)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system AJ Butcher, Information Systems and Computing (Mar 03)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Daniel Cid (Mar 03)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Dave Gonsalves (Mar 02)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Buyer Jr, David (Mar 02)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Josh Mills (Mar 03)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Hoang, Binh P,,DMDCWEST (Mar 03)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Buyer Jr, David (Mar 03)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Josh Mills (Mar 03)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Fields, James (Mar 03)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Josh Mills (Mar 03)
- Re: Recommending an IDS system Bhargav Bhikkaji (Mar 04)
- Re: Recommending an IDS system Bob Radvanovsky (Mar 04)
- Re: Recommending an IDS system Karsten Iwen (Mar 08)
- RE: Recommending an IDS system Fields, James (Mar 04)
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