Force10 Networks 100-00055-01 manual Network Security Monitoring

Chapter 6 Network Security Monitoring

A key aspect of network security deployment is the ability to monitor the network for security events, analyze them, and perform counter measures. To that end, the P-Series supports Sguil, an open source network security monitoring and reporting system that provides the ability to:

•collect, monitor, and correlate security events/alerts in the network

•analyze security events based on context

•categorize and escalate events for intrusion response decisions

The Sguil solution consists of the following components (Figure 27):

•Sensors—Sensors are the systems actually monitoring network traffic and collecting data. Sensors perform packet captures of network traffic in addition to running Snort in alert mode.

•Database—The database holds the alert and session data that the sensors collect.

•Client—The client is the interface to the Sguil server.

•Server—The Sguil server maintains connections to the sensors, clients, and database.

Figure 27 Sguil Architecture

P-Series Sensors		Sguil Server
	Security Alert Information		Sguil Client

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