Re: Is snort an overkill for desktop only environment ?

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Alexander Klimov wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, [ISO-8859-1] Jos? Manuel Molina Pascual wrote:
>   
> > If you have the HW and some time to do it.... Why not?
> >     
>
> Because every new software package you install is a potential
> source of exploitable flaws, even more so if it is always
> working and getting its inputs from network.
>
>   
In my opinion NIDS on the host itself does not make the box more secure.
When deploying snort, you normaly want to know if there already has been a
_successful_ attack, because when connecting to the internet you re
always being
attacked but mostly without any affect to your system. In your case if
your desktop
is attacked successfully, i wouldnt trust the NIDS output anyway.
In addition snort is just helpfull if someone is looking into the alerts
24/7.

I think you should spend your time with more productive stuff. But for
educational purpose
playing with it is never wasted time.

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