full-disclosure - Snort as IDS/IPS in mission-critical enterprise network

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Message-ID: <439992AF.2020508@csuohio.edu>
Date: Fri Dec  9 14:23:13 2005
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: Snort as IDS/IPS in mission-critical enterprise
	network

> Most "enterprise" IDS products are built upon Snort code my friend. 
> Snort is definately ready for whatever type of environment you put it 
> in. Just make sure you follow the snort mailing list from time to time 
> to keep up on new signatures that may not be added to the snort release.

And check ./contrib on snort, you'll find a ton of ways to automate the 
rule updates. Bad idea to let it autonomously update (because if you HUP 
snort and there's a bad rule, it dies) .. but easily made into a 
once-a-week sort of thing.

~Mike.