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== Intrusion detection ==
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== Installing intrusion detection ==
  
In hostile environments such as server environments, using a FIA makes sense only if it is installed, fully configured and initialised at the very first boot after an installation from scratch, before ever connecting to the internet or doing anything else. It takes only one attack to install a backdoor. Installing ''aide'' or ''tripwire'' after such an event would guarantee that the backdoor remains just as open as the day an intruder installed it.  
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In hostile environments such as server environments, using a FIA makes sense only if it is installed, fully configured and initialised at the very first boot after an installation from scratch, before ever connecting to the internet or doing anything else. It takes only one attack to install a backdoor. Installing ''aide'' or ''tripwire'' after such an event would guarantee that the backdoor remains just as open as the day an intruder installed it. For more on ''aide'' vs ''tripwire'', see [[Linux applications#Intrusion detection|Linux applications: Intrusion detection]], and for an example install of aide, see [[Linux_security#Installing_intrusion_detection|Linux security: Installing intrusion detection]].
 
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For more on aide vs tripwire, see [[Linux applications#Intrusion detection]], and for an example install of aide, see [[Linux_security#Installing_intrusion_detection]]
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=== tripwire ===
 
=== tripwire ===
  
== Traffic
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== Installing
 
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=== snort ===
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== Server connections ==
 
== Server connections ==
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Blocking ICMP and look invisible to ping.
 
Blocking ICMP and look invisible to ping.
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== Traffic analysis ==
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=== snort ===
  
 
=== Traffic control ===
 
=== Traffic control ===
  
 
Traffic Control (TC) and TC New Generation (TCNG)
 
Traffic Control (TC) and TC New Generation (TCNG)

Revision as of 14:18, 26 July 2015

Installing intrusion detection

In hostile environments such as server environments, using a FIA makes sense only if it is installed, fully configured and initialised at the very first boot after an installation from scratch, before ever connecting to the internet or doing anything else. It takes only one attack to install a backdoor. Installing aide or tripwire after such an event would guarantee that the backdoor remains just as open as the day an intruder installed it. For more on aide vs tripwire, see Linux applications: Intrusion detection, and for an example install of aide, see Linux security: Installing intrusion detection.

tripwire

== Installing

Server connections

Remote commands and procedure calls

ssh, rssh, scp and sftp.

Remote Procedure Calls (RPC), Portmapper

Network Wrappers (PAM)

ICMP

Blocking ICMP and look invisible to ping.

Traffic analysis

snort

Traffic control

Traffic Control (TC) and TC New Generation (TCNG)