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| Subject: | RE: Linux hardening |
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| Date: | Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:17:13 -0700 |
Run the separate snort box off the spanning port. It can be totally passive. If you are really paranoid, then print the logs on a dot matrix. --Andy -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Margolis [mailto:dmargoli@seas.upenn.edu] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 4:13 PM To: AragonX Cc: focus-linux@securityfocus.com Subject: Re: Linux hardening On Aug 21, 2005, at 8:13 AM, AragonX wrote:
Installed Smothwall on a separate box. Installed & configured AIDE, Snort and chkrootkit Ran Bastille
I'm not sure I'd run Snort on the server itself. Given that Snort has itself had remote code execution vulnerabilities in the past, it's at best a trade off, and it seems unlikely that the information you get will be useful in any case but after the fact (unless you're reading logs religiously). You might gain something by putting Snort on some other box on the same hub, just for logging purposes, but if I were you I'd make it a box I didn't care about (i.e. one without anything important running on it). Feel free to disagree, of course. Dan
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