1998-03-02 10:35:04 +00:00
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Bro is a system for detecting Network Intruders in real-time by the guys
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that brought you tcpdump, libpcap, and flex.
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Bro is a stand-alone system for detecting network intruders in real-time
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by passively monitoring a network link over which the intruder's traffic
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transits. Bro is divided into an "event engine" that reduces a
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kernel-filtered network traffic stream into a series of higher-level
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events, and a "policy script interpreter" that interprets event handlers
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written in a specialized language used to express a site's security policy.
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Event handlers can update state information, synthesize new events, record
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information to disk, and generate real-time notifications via `syslog'.
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2001-06-24 20:29:39 +00:00
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Bro is documented in the USENIX 1998 Security Conference proceedings.
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1998-03-02 10:35:04 +00:00
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-- David
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obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu
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