Introduction of IDS, IPS, & Threat Visualization Services

The Sakura Sky consulting team announces the launch of IDS, IPS & threat visualization services. Through leading open source platforms such as Suricata and commercial add-ons like Aanval, the team at Sakura now offer Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Protection setup and configuration services for your cloud or corporate network.

Suricata

Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine. Open Source and owned by a community run non-profit foundation, the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). Suricata is developed by the OISF and its supporting vendors.

Highly Scalable

Suricata is multi threaded. This means you can run one instance and it will balance the load of processing across every processor on a sensor Suricata is configured to use. This allows commodity hardware to achieve 10 gigabit speeds on real life traffic without sacrificing ruleset coverage.

Protocol Identification

The most common protocols are automatically recognized by Suricata as the stream starts, thus allowing rule writers to write a rule to the protocol, not to the port expected. This makes Suricata a Malware Command and Control Channel hunter like no other. Off port HTTP CnC channels, which normally slide right by most IDS systems, are child’s play for Suricata! Furthermore, thanks to dedicated keywords you can match on protocol fields which range from http URI to a SSL certificate identifier.

File Identification, MD5 Checksums, & File Extraction

Suricata can identify thousands of file types while crossing your network! Not only can you identify it, but should you decide you want to look at it further you can tag it for extraction and the file will be written to disk with a meta data file describing the capture situation and flow. The file’s MD5 checksum is calculated on the fly, so if you have a list of md5 hashes you want to keep in your network, or want to keep out, Suricata can find it.

Aanval / u2platform

Aanval (now called u2platform) is the industry’s most comprehensive Snort and Syslog Intrusion Detection, Correlation, and Threat Management console on the market. Aanval supports both Snort and Suricata, as well as virtually any Syslog data source, and is designed specifically to scale from small-single sensor installations to global enterprise deployments.

Aanval’s primary functions are to correlate data from multiple sources, bring together billions of events, and present users with a holistic view of false-positive free, network security situational awareness.