Re: [logs] Granular Analysis of PIX syslogs

From: Joost van Baal (joostvb-logananlysis@private)
Date: Sun Feb 13 2005 - 21:44:35 PST


On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:08:28AM -0500, Carey Heck wrote:
> 
<snip>
> Lets use an example:
> 
> I want to show an auditor what exactly went through my firewall,
> to/from a specific DMZ host, between the hours of 1 and 3pm GMT, on
> July 8th, 2003.
> 
> In checkpoint, if I had correctly configured my ruleset, and archived
> my log files properly, I could provide this answer within 30 minutes.
> 
> Fast forward to my current company, which went with a Cisco PIX
> solution based on the up front cost.  I can log all the connections to
> my heart content, but boy mining the data to help show what happened
> in my above example has been tiresome at best.
> 
> Can anyone here please suggest to me some type of logging and more
> relevantly, a granular lo analyzer that can help me achieve this end?
<snip>

You might want to take a look at LogReport's Lire (
http://www.logreport.org/ ) .  It can analyze PIX logs, as well as a
truckload of other log types.  On the loganalysis website, other
alternatives are mentioned (but I guess you knew that).

Bye,

Joost




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