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Browse All TopicsHi, we are running our sensor in promiscous mode so that it doesn't block any traffic and having the cisco even viewer email us the IDS event logs. A log summart we have is like this:
High 13003-1 "AD - External TCP Scanner" src_addr(*)/ 0.0.0.0/135 Total: 12
High 3327-0 "Windows RPC DCOM Overflow" 192.168.x.x/2873 x.x.x.x/135 Total: 1
Medium 3102-0 "Sendmail Invalid Sender" x,x,x,x/src_port(*) dest_addr(*)/25 Total: 11
Medium 3328-1 "Windows SMB/RPC NoOp Sled" x.x.x.x/2873 x.x.x.x/135 Total: 1
Informational 3030-0 "TCP SYN Host Sweep" src_addr(*)/src_port(*) dest_addr(*)/ Total: 83
Informational 6253-0 "POP3 Authorization Failure" x.x.x.x/50691 x.x.x.x/110 Total: 1
My questions are:
1- what would we need to do to enable the IPS sensor to automatically block high-threat traffic? Would it do this through its default settings or do we need to do something special?
2- in the case of the above example, what kind of traffic would the IPS sensor block? would it block only High level alerts, or all of them, or what?
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