Intrusion Detection is the active process to document and catch attackers and malicious code on a network. It is described in two types of software: Host based software and Network based software.
Computers connected directly to the Internet are subject to relentless probing and attack.
While protective measures such as safe configuration, up-to-date patching, and firewalls are all prudent steps they are difficult to maintain and cannot guarantee that all vulnerabilities are shielded. An IDS provides defense in depth by detecting and logging hostile activities. An IDS system acts as “eyes” that watch for intrusions when other protective measures fail.
A firewall is a device installed normally at the perimeter of a network to define access rules for access to particular resources inside the network. On the firewall anything that is not explicitly allowed is denied. A firewall allows and denies access through the rule base.
An Intrusion Detection System is a software or hardware device installed on the network (NIDS) or host (HIDS) to detect and report suspicious activity.
In simple terms you can say that while a firewall is a gate or door in a superstore, a IDS device is a security camera. A firewall can block connection, while a IDS cannot block connection. An IDS device can however alert any suspicious activities.
An Intrusion Prevention System is a device that can start blocking connections proactively if it finds the connections to be of suspicious in nature.
Agreed that an IDS device cannot prevent a hack and can only alert any suspicious activities. However, if we are to go by past experiences, hacks and system compromises are not something that happens over night. Planned compromise attempts can take several days, weeks, months and in some cases even years. So a IDS device can alert you so that you can take the desired precaution in protecting the resources.
An IDS is a system designed to detect and report unauthorized attempts to access or utilize computer and/or network resources. A network-based IDS collects, filters, and analyzes traffic that passes through a specific network location.
The other common type of IDS is host-based. In host-based IDS each computer (or host) has an IDS client installed that reports either locally or to a central monitoring station. The advantage of a host-based IDS is that the internal operation and configuration of the individual computers can be monitored.
HIDS is software which reveals if a machine is being or has been compromised. It does this by checking the files on the machine for possible problems. Software described as host based IDS could include File Integrity checkers (TripWire), Anti-virus software (Norton AV, MacAfee), Server Logs (Event viewer or syslog), and in some ways even backup software can be a HIDS.
NIDS is software which monitors network packets and examines them against a set of signatures and rules. When the rules are violated the action is logged and the Admin could be alerted. Examples of NIDS software are Sax2.
There are three primary drawbacks of a host-based ID:
(1) It is harder to correlate network traffic patterns that involve multiple computers;
(2) Host-based IDSs can be very difficult to maintain in environments with a lot of computers, with variations in operating systems and configurations, and where computers are maintained by several system administrators with little or no common practices;
(3) Host-based IDSs can be disabled by attackers after the system is compromised.
Host based IDS systems are used to closely monitor any actions taking place on important servers and machines. Host based IDS systems are used to detect any anomalies and activities on these important and critical servers. You use Host based IDS systems when you cannot risk the compromise of any server. The server has to be very important and mission critical to use Host based IDS systems on these servers. Host based IDS systems are agents that run on the critical servers. The agent is installed on the server that is being monitored.
There are three types of attacks:
Reconnaissance These include ping sweeps, DNS zone transfers, e-mail recons, TCP or UDP port scans, and possibly indexing of public web servers to find cgi holes.
Exploits Intruders will take advantage of hidden features or bugs to gain access to the system.
Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks Where the intruder attempts to crash a service (or the machine), overload network links, overloaded the CPU, or fill up the disk. The intruder is not trying to gain information, but to simply act as a vandal to prevent you from making use of your machine.
The signatures are written based on these types of attacks.
Sax2 is is a professional network intrusion detection and prevention system (NIDS) which excels at real-time packet capture, 24/7 network monitor, advanced protocol analysis and automatic expert detection. you can detect network attacks, and interfere with its implementation once discovered, thereby protecting networks against attacks.
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Sax2 is the bypass monitoring mode; only analyze the copy of the packets, so it will not affect the existing communications and network speed. Is the choice of hub (HUB) or switch to monitor? we recommend using HUB (Please note the Hub’s connection), otherwise needing to use the mirror switch, when the export bandwidth of less is than 4 M.
Maybe not choose the right adapter. Click “Detection \ Adapter” menu to pop-up adapter settings window, All supported adapters are listed in the Adapter page, if there are two or more adapters , check whether the selected adapter is the adapter you are using. If did not find any adapter or information is not correct, that means you have the installation problems. Please re-install. If after the re-installation, we also can not find the adapter , then it is possible that the adapter does not support.
This means your computer is connected with the switch. In order to capture other computer’s traffic, we need to increase a HUB or a switch which support mirror port. If the connect Internet through the server, it also can be installed directly on the server. Please refer to specific “ Installation & deployment “
Recommended HUB (hub) models: TL-HP5MU of the Tplink, ( five port 10 M Ethernet hub).
Recommended mirror switch models: TL-SF2005 of the Tplink, ( five port mirror switches).
Sax2 only run in your company’s operating within the LAN, do not have any data exchange with Interne except checking for updated version. Information is in the local archive, will not cause the leakage of information.
1). Protocol Analysis of Principles
Through the mirror port or switch HUB radio communications, can receive the communication data packets from other control host. And then revert data package by software, extracted the data from it.
2). Blocking Principles
TCP communication is the connection-oriented, so can disconnect the TCP connection d by sending some disguise packets. This is the blocking principle of Sax2.
Sax2 can monitor the computer in domain , but can not support monitoring by domain account, only can monitor based on the MAC address and IP address.
When uninstall, we will delete the profile, but does not delete the log file, so before you re-install, you better back up the previous configuration (installation directory’s the “data” directory is that).
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1). Sax2 monitor under the MAC address (LAN address, the user can not be changed) by default. In a single network environment, MAC address and the computer are one-to-one relationship, according to MAC address to judge the corresponding staff.
2) In the multi- segment network environment, MAC address and computer are not one-to-one relationship, and need to monitor through IP addresses. Therefore, only through IP address to judge the user, we recommend using IP and MAC bundled technology in cases of multi- segment network environment, to prevent employees to evade monitoring through the revision of IP.
MAC address is the adapter address Click the “Start” -> “Run”, input “cmd”, click enter, and then input “ipconfig / all” to cmd window. To see all the configuration information of the adapter, the “Physical Address” is the MAC address.
Yes, you can. But you will see the content is encrypted (it will be messy code.)
Sax2 can count the entire network or a single network node, including the total traffic, traffic per second, the average traffic in detail.
Sax2 ’s mail analysis functions support the protocol is SMTP and POP3, while sending e-mail based on web use the HTTP protocol, and submits with form style, so it will not be displayed in the email log automatically.
Sax2 did not keep copies of e-mail message by default. In this case, you will not see the original information directly. To enable this feature, Please refer to help document.
Yes it can. There are two kinds worm. One is based on e-mail worm; the other one is based on operating system. The first worm’s the performance of the main characteristics is high frequency sending a message, similar content in the message headers, the same e-mail attachments. The second worm’s the performance of the main characteristics is trying to work with all host LAN connection, linking the port are consistent and link between the gap between short time, greater flow of occupation. Sax2 ’s email logs can capture analysis and reorganize sending and receiving mail in the network. According to e-mail log information and the features of e-mail worm, use r can identify the worm infected machines in network. Through packet view and conversation view, you can easily identify infected machines within vulnerabilities worm.
By default, Sax2 analyze the HTTP accessing based on the 80 port. Analyze the web accessing based on other port (such as the 10,081) , Please refer to help document.
No, it can not. Https is encrypted transmission. Sax2 or even all of the protocol software can only capture communications packets of https, but can not analyze and restrict its specific accessing information.
Generally, a adapter has a number of IP addresses, as followings:
Under normal circumstances, a adapter targeted a number of IP.
Gateway: When data communicates, each of the three-tier equipment will change the source address of the packet into his own, and send to the next equipment, so a gateway matching a number of IP is normal.
ARP attacks: when do ARP attacks, generally there will have a host of intermediaries, this host will match a number of IP because of the needs to deceive the client and gateway together.
Therefore, when the adapter matches a number of IP address, we need to analyze. If it belongs to segment 1 and 2, it is normal, but if it is the third one, which means the network is in the attacks, and the current adapter corresponding to the host which is the attack source, should immediately conduct a thorough investigation.
This phenomenon is due to your wrong HUB connection or incorrect switch ports mirror configured. If you are using the HUB with the uplink, the port which connects uplink port can not connect to any network lines. If it still does not work, you can try another port. If you are using the switch, please make sure whether have done mirrors in send and receive data.