Re: Snort and real-time alerting

["Lay, James" <james.lay () wincofoods com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeronimo L. Cabral [mailto:jelocabral () gmail com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:52 AM
> To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort and real-time alerting
>
> Something else: suppose I use logsurfer/swatch/logwatch to alert in
> real time the Snorts events. Actually I have near 5 events per minute.
>
> What is the criteria to take just a few number of critical events of
> Snort ??? Because I have 20.000 signatures...

Have the watching app look for specific things...perhaps only certain
classifications ("A Network Trojan was Detected") or something of the
like.

James

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