Regarding your Symantec Client Security comment, just a note that there
is no HIDS in that product, its more like a basic signature based IDS at
the host level,
it does'nt perform any of the advance HIDS functionality that you'd
expect from a full HIDS product.
Youngquist, Jason R. wrote:
I just recently started a new job as a network security analyst and one
of my projects is to implement an intrusion detection system. I've been
doing some research and pursuing the listserv archives and was wondering
if anyone had any thoughts/opinions.
For NIDS's, I've been looking at SourceFire's commercialized version of
Snort, CISCO's IDS appliances, and McAffee's IntruShield.
For HIDS's, there appears to be three main categories: monitoring the
host's file system, the host's network connections, and the host's log
files.
--Host's file system: I'm looking at Tripwire Manager, Tripwire for
Servers, and Tripwire for Network Devices.
--Host's network connections: I'm looking for an enterprise-wide
solution that we can roll out to all the Windows XP machines and
centrally manage. Since we already use Symantec for anti-virus,
Symantec's Client Security 2.0 seems to incorporate a centrally managed
personal firewall, HIDS, and anti-virus capability.
--Host's log files: I'm looking at implementing a centralized
syslog/syslog-ng server on a Linux box and having all Windows XP boxes
and network devices log to it. I'd also stick the data into a MySQL
database to allow for easy querying.
I'd like to have an analysis program that would take data from the NIDS,
HIDS, syslog, and tripwire logs, put it all together, and be able to
give me some useful charts and graphical summaries so management can see
that their money was well spent in securing the organization's
infrastructure.
Thanks.
Jason Youngquist
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