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Suricata

Suricata is a leading independent open source threat detection engine that combines intrusion detection and community maintained rule-sets to quickly identify sophisticated threats.

Within DynamiteNSM, Suricata is used primarily for identifying known suspicious or malicious activity.

By default, Suricata runs the EmergingThreat Open rule-set, which is updated daily.

To make sure you are running the latest rules run sudo dynamite suricata update.

$ dynamite suricata -h

usage: dynamite [-h] {install,uninstall,update,process,config,logs} ...

Suricata @ 192.168.199.1

positional arguments:
  {install,uninstall,update,process,config,logs}
    install             Install Suricata as a standalone component.
    uninstall           Uninstall Suricata this machine.
    update              Install the latest Suricata rule-sets.
    process             Manage local Suricata node processes.
    config              Modify Suricata configurations.
    logs                Attach to various Suricata logs.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Installation

sudo dynamite suricata install -h

Configuration

dynamite suricata config -h

Scripts Configuration

dynamite suricata config main rules -h

Process Management

dynamite suricata process -h

View Logs

dynamite suricata logs -h

Defaults

Directories

  • Installation Directory: /opt/dynamite/suricata/
  • Configuration Directory: /etc/dynamite/suricata/
  • Rules Directory: /etc/dynamite/suricata/rules
  • Logs: /var/log/dynamite/suricata/