Re: Host Based IDS

I am partial to IBM Proventia.  The reporting tool is great, and helps me run reports of who did what to whom, which is handy for PCI compliance.

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From: "Erik Harrison" <[email protected]>
>
> how many servers, os variations, what kind of changes are you looking
> to detect? basic file changes are easy, it's the rest of it that's
> complicated and functionality will vary. past that, reporting will be
> important to the managers, execs and if you have a lot of other things
> to manage - to you as well.
> 
> what exactly do you want to show them, will you need to back up any
> other responses with relevant data from your org? any other compliance
> or security initiatives in the company that you could support with the
> package or product?
> 
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Security Group <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am currently evaluating several host-based Intrusion Detection
> > Systems to monitor servers in a DMZ. My company only wants to monitor
> > for suspecious behaviour on critical servers, without the need for a
> > company wide security system. I am not interested in a network-bases
> > ids because this is already covered by our company.
> > The list below contains my findings so far;
> >
> > OSSEC
> > Open Source Tripwire
> > SAMHAIN
> > OSIRIS
> > AIDE
> > Third Brigade Deep Security
> > Symantec Critical System Protection
> > IBM Proventia
> > Enterasys Dragon IDS/IPS
> > McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint
> > CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System r8
> > GFiEventsManager
> > Cisco Security Agent
> >
> > I am thinking of suggesting OSSEC. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Babel Timon
> >
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> Is your IDS deployed correctly?
> Find out quickly and easily by testing it 
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