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Re: Please post a good Nachi.B Signature
From: Jason Haar <Jason.Haar () trimble co nz>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:57:01 +1300
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:48:27PM -0500, Erek Adams wrote:
* (personal, so no flames needed)--NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER consider an IDS as something to deal with/help with/mitigate a virus problem.
I think you are selling IDS short there. We have VERY SUCCESSFULLY used our Snort network for real-time alerting of virus/trojan outbreaks. We have serious muscle on our network with AV systems - both server and client - but still there's the opportunity for viruses to get onto test boxes/etc. Snort has been massively useful as a first-line alerting system to virus outbreaks - in fact our helpdesk think the IDS is a "network AV system" :-} I know that is not meant to be what an IDS is for - but this has become a serendipitous side-effect of installing Snort world wide for us... Oh yeah - banging out Samba honeypots has also helped a lot... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
Current thread:
- Please post a good Nachi.B Signature Dan (Feb 21)
- Re: Please post a good Nachi.B Signature Erek Adams (Feb 21)
- Re: Please post a good Nachi.B Signature Jason Haar (Feb 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Please post a good Nachi.B Signature Dan (Feb 21)
- Re: Please post a good Nachi.B Signature James Riden (Feb 21)
- Re: Please post a good Nachi.B Signature SN ORT (Feb 23)
- Re: Please post a good Nachi.B Signature Erek Adams (Feb 21)