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Pauldotcom Digest, Vol 7, Issue 11
From: chris.glanville at gmail.com (Chris Glanville)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:10:23 -0700
I've been using Junipers STRM for about two months now and have been pretty happy with it so far. Juniper is actually OEM'ing Q1's QRadar product so STRM = QRadar. Juniper has done a good job though and provided value-add documents etc. I struggled with Cisco's MARS for about a year and a half and the STRM is a breath of fresh air (comparatively). The STRM product is also big into flow data. A Juniper guy explained that Q1 started with a flow product and added the event side to it. If you're looking for both, STRM integrates them well. When I was looking at new products I focused on the ability to search events and incidents. This was something I struggled with in MARS. Reporting needs should also be considered. I'd highly recommend getting your hands on whatever solutions you're thinking about and not letting the vendor tell you it'll do X or Y. No tool is perfect and it will require tuning but providing a central location for networking and server folks to view events/logs does have value!
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:32:40 -0400 From: Ron Gula <rgula at tenablesecurity.com> Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] SMB Security Event Management Tool To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List ? ? ? ?<pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com> Message-ID: <49DF5888.2000406 at tenablesecurity.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 When I initially wrote the Dragon IDS, I had a lot of customers tell me about how much they hated to have to fire up MS-SQL or some other database that was outside a product they were using, especially if it was a security product. For the Tenable Security Center and Log Correlation Engine, there are no traditional databases involved. Everything is written to the disk and indexed for performance. If you loose power, you have minimal corruption and it works real well in a VM type of environment. Ron Gula Tenable Network Security Neils Christoffersen wrote:Q1 also uses ariel in its QRadar product (not sure about the free version). On 4/9/09, Dan McGinn-Combs <dgcombs at gmail.com> wrote:Has anyone tried Juniper's STRM set of products? I had a pitch by them the other day touting their use of a proprietary database called Ariel (yeah... under the sea. I know) which solves not only your alerting, reporting and forensics issues but also world hunger and peace in the Middle East. After having used MySQL back ends before, I'm a little less than thrilled by products that incorporate that as a repository for XXX log items per second. Dan On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:02 PM, airwolf airwolf <airwolf.security at gmail.comwrote: I would recommend at looking at: Splunk and Snare. Both tools combined give you great flexibility, not audit nirvana but close. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Jim Manley <jmanley at aledobb.com> wrote:I'm looking for a security event management tool (log correlation, auditing, etc.) that would be suitable for small/medium size business environment. ?The environments in which it would be deployed into are primarily MS Windows with a smattering of Linux. It doesn't need a lot of bells and whistles and it needs to be fairly easy to set up and operate (the people doing the work are primarily physical security types with the average user's knowledge). ?Ideally it needs to trigger on Windows event manager and security manager codes for things like failed logins, etc.-- Dan McGinn-Combs, Security+, GSEC, CISSP, CISA dgcombs at gmail.com Grand Central: +1 404 492 7532 Peachtree City, Georgia USA
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