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Re: Fine tuning Snort
From: Josh Little <josh () zombietango com>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:08:53 -0400
On 10/7/2010 2:02 PM, James Lay wrote:
Kevin and Waldo, you gents are treasures…I will get to work and report my results…thank you much! james From: Kevin Ross <kevross33 () googlemail com <mailto:kevross33 () googlemail com>> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:55:43 +0100 To: James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net <mailto:jlay () slave-tothe-box net>>, Snort <snort-users () lists sourceforge net <mailto:snort-users () lists sourceforge net>> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Fine tuning Snort Well what you can do is: - Use threshold.conf to supress alerts entirely from certain sources or destinations and limit the amount of alerts it will fire too. Read the examples in threshold.conf and put them in your enviroment. If there is specific sources and destinations you can filter this way - Use oinkmaster or pulled pork to disable and enable rules from VRT and emergingthreats.net <http://emergingthreats.net> that you need. Just start by not including rules files for things you do not have and then go through the rules files taking down the sids to disable and then have oinkmaster or pulled pork scheduled by cron to run an update.
I have a small tool written in Perl called Pigsty that will automate finding any sigs in your enabled ruleset that match a pattern. The tool will output a list of disablesid lines that you can then drop into your oinkmaster.conf file or have the tool directly append the file. This makes cleaning up your current rules much easier. You could probably modify the oinkmaster perl script to run Pigsty just after the latests sigs are downloaded and before the routine for commenting out disabled sids completes. Find it at http://zombietango.com/blog/tools/ ZT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ 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
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