Scirius CE 1.2.0 is for IPS and collaboration

by Eric Leblond | Mar 02, 2017 | SELKS, Open Source, Suricata, Stamus Security Platform

Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of Scirius 1.2.0. This release of our Suricata ruleset management interface comes after 4 months of development bringing two new major features: rules transformations to manage IPS and users activity logging to ease collaboration.

Rules transformation

With rules transformations, Scirius can now manage Suricata in IPS mode but also add the filestore option to specific rules allowing the user to transform existing rules coming from feed in rules realizing file extraction.

A signature can be transformed per ruleset to a drop or reject rule as shown in the following capture:

The filestore transformation will trigger file extraction by Suricata in case of alert. This allows user to have file extraction without the need of cloning existing rules.

User activity logging

The second big new feature is user activity logging. It is now possible to comment actions. A team collaboring on the same Scirius can now comment actions such as disabling a rule or adding a threshold.

It is also possible to simply comment on a rule.

All these features are already available in Scirius Enterprise and Amsterdam and will be available in SELKS in the coming days.

Eric Leblond

Éric Leblond is the co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) at Stamus Networks. He sits on the board of directors at Open Network Security Foundation (OISF). Éric has more than 15 years of experience as co-founder and technologist of cybersecurity software companies and is an active member of the security and open-source communities. He has worked on the development of Suricata – the open-source network threat detection engine – since 2009 and is part of the Netfilter Core team, responsible for the Linux kernel's firewall layer. Eric is a respected expert and speaker on all things network security. Éric resides in Escalles, France.

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