RE: [logs] What's normal?

From: Lance Spitzner (lanceat_private)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 11:05:22 PDT

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    On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Wright, Joseph G (Gregory), SOLCM wrote:
    
    > > My hope is that by providing this sort of information we'll 
    > > make it easier
    > > for people to get up to speed on what is and is not typical 
    > > >>for them<<.
    > 
    > I think perhaps we need two types of information:
    > 
    > 1. A basic methodology for actually profiling boxen, based on the OS,
    >    the intended use, location within the network, etc. There are as
    >    many approaches to this as there are tools to collect the data, if
    >    not more. However, providing some guidelines or direction as to 
    >    what data is the most useful to collect and what are some of the 
    >    more universally accepted "useful" ways to look at that data will
    >    go a long way.
    > 
    > 2. A repository of sanitized profiles, where a specific type of
    >    configuration is described (e.g., web, DNS and mail servers located
    >    in a DMZ, all running on a single flavor of *nix), and a snapshot
    >    of what has been determined as "normal" activity for that config.
    
    Stick a honeypot out there, whatever it captures, it aint 'normal' :)
    
    lance
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