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As an information security manager, you've very likely come to appreciate the benefits of Snort, the immensely popular open source network intrusion detection system. But you may have balked at implementing Snort-based network security monitoring because integrating and using Snort and complementary tools may be technically daunting, or require too much of your staff's time and energy to make it worth the effort.
Snort alone doesn't give you a complete network security monitoring tool, and integrating and using all the pieces you need may be frustrating. The popular BASE console, for example, is often used with Snort, but like all Web-based consoles, it lacks speed, doesn't provide real-time alerting and has limited analysis functionality.
But now this critically important security
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capability can be well within your means, thanks to Knoppix-NSM, a Snort-based integrated network security monitoring package from the open source development team at Securixlive.com. For rapid and reliable deployment, this LiveCD and distro are quite effective; you can conduct a live session right from the CD, allowing you to test the tools before choosing to go ahead with a hard-drive installation.
Knoppix-NSM provides a complete open source intrusion detection system infrastructure in a single solution. Its instant insight provides significant analysis of network traffic and your network security posture, prior to a permanent deployment.
Further, the analysis console is Sguil, developed by Bamm Visscher and featured in Richard Bejtlich's The Tao of Network Security Monitoring.
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