Re: best ids placement?

[Joshua Krage <jkrage () guisarme net>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:50:20PM -0400, Rob Shein wrote:
>  But realistically speaking, an IDS is going to typically have
>  connectivity via another route; otherwise how can you do IP block
>  lookups, googling, etc. to determine more about attacks?    Furthermore,
>  besides rooting, what if the attacker merely wanted

Use a layered security model?  Don't let your sniffer (which is processing
unknown inputs) have access to the big bad world, and have a second box?
Use a proxy or agent structure to eliminate direct access?

But otherwise completely agree with your point.  I don't like leaving my
sniffers, with full access to network data, somewhere where they can be
accessed from outside arm's reach.


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