[Discussion] Ca I use Suricata in a local network?

[Leonard Jacobs]

You can use the Suricata IPS anywhere in a network. 
 
We don’t use our Suricata installations as gateways.  In my opinion Suricata is not setup to be a gateway because it really does not route.
 
From: Jason Long [mailto:hack3rcon at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 11:35 PM
To: Leonard Jacobs; 'Menerick, John'; discussion at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Discussion] Ca I use Suricata in a local network?
 
Thank you so much.
As I understand, I must use Suricata as a gateway. I have a Local network with 200 clients and my network is not large. I use TMG as a gateway and I want to know can I use Suricata in my local network and not as a Gateway ? Sorry, My question may funny but to be honest, I don't know any more about IPS.
 
On Monday, December 22, 2014 9:16 AM, Leonard Jacobs <ljacobs at netsecuris.com> wrote:
 
You could also use Suricata setup to run in af-packet mode to perform IPS.  I find it more efficient than using Suricata with Iptables for doing dropping of malicious packets.  We have been using Af-Packet ips mode for a long time.
 
https://home.regit.org/2012/09/new-af_packet-ips-mode-in-suricata/  Don’t forget If you want to drop a packet then the signature needs to be changed from alert to drop.
 
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Packet_Acquisition_API
 
From: discussion-bounces at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org [mailto:discussion-bounces at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Menerick, John
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 11:07 AM
To: Jason Long; discussion at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Discussion] Ca I use Suricata in a local network?
 

Yes, you can. How you do it depends on the scale of your local network, equipment, and other information technology challenges. https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Setting_up_IPSinline_for_Linux is one such example. For instance, if you need to scale far beyond a linux router, then you will augment your blocking with remote calls into your network equipment to enact the change.


Warmly,

John Menerick
Security at NetSuite
http://www.securesql.info

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From: discussion-bounces at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org [mailto:discussion-bounces at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Jason Long
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 2:44 AM
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Subject: [Discussion] Ca I use Suricata in a local network?

Hello Folks.
How are you?
Excuse me, I want to know can I use Suricata-IDS in a local network for blocked bad users in my network and prevent them to attack my servers? 
Excuse me if my question is vague.

Cheers.
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