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		ocbyc on May 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Snort – Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention... Snort was the 2nd thing I setup after big brother when I was a sysadmin in the 1990's at an ISP.

ianmcgowan on May 28, 2022 [–]

Big Brother was the shit! It was amazing for a small IT shop to have a central view of everything in the environment. We setup basic up/down, disk, cpu, memory only and then every time there was a surprise incident asked “how can we monitor for this?”. In a fairly short time there were very few surprises…

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