Re: Getting more context in snort alerts.

[Richard Bejtlich <taosecurity () gmail com>]

Hello,

Try Sguil.  Bamm wrote Sguil a decade ago to solve this problem.  :)

Sincerely,

Richard

On 1/10/11, sudhakar govindavajhala <sudhakarg79spam () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Snort folks,
>
>
> When Snort identifies something as an attack, it currently only shows me the
> single packet that triggered the alarm. It does not show me enough context
> to make an informed decision.
>
>
> Do you have any suggestions on how I could get more context?  Is this
> something that Snort supports relatively out of the box or do I have to
> write lots of code?   A silly option would be to use tcpdump to log all
> packets and then search the logs.    Is there a better approach?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sudhakar.

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