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Date:      Thu, 03 May 2001 17:00:43 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        Glenn G <glenn@geekazoid.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Security Monitors 
Message-ID:  <200105040000.f4400od16783@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 May 2001 09:18:25 PDT." <3AF184D1.267A76D8@geekazoid.com> 

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In message <3AF184D1.267A76D8@geekazoid.com>, Glenn G writes:
> Good Morning All!  I have a quick question regarding security
> monitoring.  We have a Linux server that was recently breeched
> (completely my fault btw.  Never got around to securing it up very
> well.)
> 
> To my point...FreeBSD has been much more secure in my limited experience
> than most other OS's out there.  I would however like to install more
> monitoring software on the box so it will alert me if there has been an
> attack.  I have been looking at "mon", "bro", and "logcheck".  Can
> anyone give any recommendations?  Experiences?

Take a look at swatch in ports.  Granted you'll need to define to 
swatch regular expressions in your logs that could trigger some action 
such as paging you on your cell phone/pager.


Regards,                         Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                        Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC




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