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Re: A useful oversimplification for network surveillance?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas FISCHBACH)
Tue Aug 30 18:56:37 2005

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:56:09 +0200
From: Nicolas FISCHBACH <nicolist@securite.org>
To: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <p0623093bbf33906569d1@[192.168.0.2]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
> 
> I'm developing some guidance for ISP surveillance for infrastructure 
> attacks, and my increasing impression is that for other than the expert 
> level, there may be some useful simplifications of the applicability of 
> tools. Remember that I am speaking of surveillance here, not the 
> detailed analysis in a sinkhole.  Perhaps this could be the basis of 
> some security architecture presentations/tutorials at NANOG.

Have a look at these two presentations, the first covers most of the
items you listed, the second one, while more enterprise-oriented also
applies to large SP management networks.

"Building an Early Warning System in a Service Provider Network"
  http://www.securite.org/presentations/secip/BHEU2004-NF-SP-EWS-v11.ppt
  http://www.securite.org/presentations/secip/BHEU2004-NF-SP-EWS-v11.zip (PDF)

"Network flows and Security"
  http://www.securite.org/presentations/secip/BHEU2005-NetflowSecurity-NF-v101.ppt
  http://www.securite.org/presentations/secip/BHEU2005-NetflowSecurity-NF-v101.pdf

Nico.
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