Since a long time I’m running Suricata on a few Internet facing boxes, just to see what’s attempted to access these boxes unauthorized. It brings a great deal of new information, however there are limits what people should be allowed to do. Politely asking them to stop does not work, nor emailing the abuse address …
Since a few months I realized I need more than just a secure connection. What are “they” attempting on the outside of my Internet connection and do I take sufficient measures to counteract? So instead of just checking the logfiles using elsa, I started suricata on the webserver. Suricata is similar to snort, but more …
When monitoring systems, as in automagically checking all business processes and systems are ok, I used to use a Master/Slave setup. This was built with plain Nagios installs and a ssh-tunnel over the Internet. And then the responsability grows. Another slave? More (manual) labor? right. I started a search to find the best option which …
