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Re: [FW-1] Best IDS??



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl E. Mankinen [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:50 PM
>
> Carefully setup rules for filtering of alerts on valid flows, and
> set everything else to a variety of actions such as:
> FW-1 OPSEC (block intruder, might be good idea on certain types of
> activity like ftp, however OPSEC blocking can BITE you if the
> attacker manages to spoof addresses for sites on the Inet you don't
> want
> blocked...basically, you could DoS yourself from accessing
> even the root
> name servers!)


Carl,

the concerns you listed are exactly the reasons I created SnortSam
(www.snortsam.net), which you might want to check out. It can make
automated blocking much safer. (SnortSam is a plugin to Snort and an
agent which allows for blocking on Checkpoint firewalls).

Regards,
Frank

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