Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of Scirius 1.1.6. This new release brings interesting new features and a lot of bugfixes to our Suricata ruleset manager.
The main new features in release are:
- Backup support
- Threshold support
- Xbits and hostbits support
- Down detection of scirius
- Top src and destination in rule page
- Fix of test system that takes Suricata local config into account
The backup system adds a set of new commands to manage.py to backup and restore completely a Scirius instance. scbackup will do a backup and screstore will erase everything and restore latest backup. Backup can be done locally but it is also possible to use FTP, Dropbox or Amazon AWS to store and fetch backups.
On the usability feature side the most important is the support of thresholding. Scirius is now managing a threshold.config that is used by Suricata to limit or suppress alert(s) for a signature under certain conditions. Easiest way to access this feature is to start from a rule page and look at new top source and destination tables:
The arrow down and the cross can be clicked to trigger edition of a form for a threshold (limit) or a suppression. For instance if you click on the cross, you will get something like:
If there is already a suppression activated for the network/IP, you get a warning:
Latest ruleset management feature is the handling of the new xbits and hostbits. When a rule is disable, all the rule sharing a flowbits, a xbits or a hostbits are also deactivated.
At last, browser is now detecting that Scirius is down allowing you to avoid to navigate away from a form you were editing till connection is not restored:
Scirius 1.1.6 may be a minor release for the number in term of features it adds a lots of things users were asking for. You can already get scirius 1.1.6 in latest amsterdam. And it will be part of SELKS 3.0 that will be available really soon.
