Re: [logs] most popular reports...?

From: Tim Sailer (sailer@private)
Date: Thu Aug 19 2004 - 19:06:03 PDT


Yeah, what *he* said! :) That's what I'm doing. And yes, the filter are BIG,
but with multiple tiers, you can spread it across the levels.

Tim

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:43:57PM -0700, Raffael Marty wrote:
> > Just curious, how do you determine the stuff that you are *not* interested in?
> > It seems to be a fairly subjective exercise and may result in losing 
> > important data. (genuine question, not flame bait :)
> 
> Just a quick answer to this: "determining stuff that is *not*
> interesting" should not mean that you completely get rid of it. Keep it
> in the system and have it run through the correlation engine and all
> those neat things, but don't look at them. 
> 
> You would basically use a filter to keep certain events from being shown
> to you. Coming up with this filter (which can turn out to be massive)
> is a matter of looking at events and figuring out, one by one, what their
> root cause is. You will realize that there are many of them!
> 
> 	-raffy
> 
> -- 
> 
> Raffael Marty, CISSP                          raffael.marty@private
> Senior Security Engineer                    Content Team @ ArcSight Inc.
> 5 Results Way            Cupertino, CA  95014             (408) 864-2662

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Tim Sailer <sailer@private> 
Information and Special Technologies Program
Office of CounterIntelligence 
Brookhaven National Laboratory  (631) 344-3001
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