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How to find IPS events in sonicwall syslog

I have a sonicwall os firewall, and the security dashboard shows about 9 intrusion prevention events in the last month. Most are called "Suspicious CIFS traffic 4". I have syslog servers setup with ...
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Enterprise IDS - Deployment & Uses

I am investigating deploying the Snort IDS for an enterprise environment. This environment consists of a NOC that manages several servers, mainly internal but some internet facing. There are several ...
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Neural networks & anomaly detection

Neural networks, with their ability to learn behavioural patterns from arbitrary data, seem like a natural way to deal with intrusion detection. There are many academic papers on the topic which ...
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IDS/WAF scenario for 2 web servers

I'm running 2 web servers on 2 different physical hosts at home. They handle both HTTP and HTTPS traffic. I want to protect against web application attacks, but don't want to spend money for ...
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Power friendly home router, firewall, IDS/IPS setup?

For those that like to manage their own firewall and run IDS/IPS on their home networks, I'm curious - what are you using and is it power friendly? I used to have a shelf full systems doing various ...
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Do you detect/react to DNS tunnelling?

I've just seen a talk about tunnelling TCP/IP over DNS requests, because port 53 UDP is usually open and unfiltered. What techniques exist to detect and block such tunnels, and have you ever seen that ...