Hi Phil,

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:23 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I think I see what I did wrong and have changed it now to use two rules:
>
> <rule id="10044" level="0">
>   <if_sid>5720</if_sid>
>    <same_source_ip />
>    <description>Multiple SSHD authentication failures (Local)</description>
>    <group>authentication_failures,</group>
> </rule>
>

You don't need the same_source_ip option. That only really matters
when you're looking for multiple events from the same IP.
You may need to raise the level to 1, I don't know. I've never tried
this with a level 0 event.

> <rule id="10044" level="10" frequency="24" timeframe="180">
>   if_matched_sid>10044</if_matched_sid>
>   <same_source_ip />
>   <description>Multiple SSHD authentication failures (Local)</description>
>   <group>authentication_failures,</group>
> </rule>
>

You duplicated the rule id, this one should be 10045. Other than that
it looks good.

> So the first rule stops it from reporting and if that has been hit the second 
> correlates them again the frequency.
>
> Is that the correct understanding ?
>
> Thanks.
>

That looks correct to me.

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