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I was wondering something. I am looking at deploying Snort/ACID on a few servers I have exposed to the WAN. Is it considered insecure to leave an interface that is connected to the WAN in promiscuous mode?
Not in of itself, but you are adding another piece of software that can (and has been) vulnerable to remote exploitation. An ideal way to run Snort is on a dedicated machine that is connected by an "ethertap" which is basically a one way ethernet cable (see snort docs for a howto). That way you're significantly reducing the likelihood of the IDS getting compromised.
Yeah, I was hoping that I wouldn't have to install Apache, ACID, Snort, MySQL, etc. on every machine I want to monitor. This just seems like an overhead nightmare alongside the added security risks.
You can actually install a bunch of Snort sensors that then send logs to a central analysis console that has /ACID/mySQL/Apache on it. Those apps really just make reviewing your logs more convienient. That may sound trivial, but on a fairly substantial network, Snort logs can can get really big in a short amount of time. Installing Snort on every machine is probably overkill. Putting it on a few well select machines that can observe all network traffic is probably a better solution.
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