Sguil

Template:Short description {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters | check | showblankpositional=1 | unknown = Template:Main other | preview = Page using Template:Infobox software with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y | AsOf | author | background | bodystyle | caption | collapsetext | collapsible | developer | discontinued | engine | engines | genre | included with | language | language count | language footnote | latest preview date | latest preview version | latest release date | latest release version | latest_preview_date | latest_preview_version | latest_release_date | latest_release_version | licence | license | logo | logo alt | logo caption | logo upright | logo size | logo title | logo_alt | logo_caption | logo_upright | logo_size | logo_title | middleware | module | name | operating system | operating_system | other_names | platform | programming language | programming_language | released | replaced_by | replaces | repo | screenshot | screenshot alt | screenshot upright | screenshot size | screenshot title | screenshot_alt | screenshot_upright | screenshot_size | screenshot_title | service_name | size | standard | title | ver layout | website | qid }}Template:Main other Sguil (pronounced sgweel or squeal) is a collection of free software components for Network Security Monitoring (NSM) and event driven analysis of IDS alerts.<ref name="NHS"/> The sguil client is written in Tcl/Tk<ref name="RJ1"/><ref name="NHS"/> and can be run on any operating system that supports these. Sguil integrates alert data from Snort, session data from SANCP, and full content data from a second instance of Snort running in packet logger mode.

Sguil is an implementation of a Network Security Monitoring system. NSM is defined as "collection, analysis, and escalation of indications and warnings to detect and respond to intrusions."

Sguil is released under the GPL 3.0.<ref>README file in the tarball</ref>

Tools that make up Sguil

Tool	Purpose
MySQL 4.x or 5.x	Data storage and retrieval
Snort 2.x / Suricata	Intrusion detection alerts, scan detection, packet logging
Barnyard / Barnyard2	Decodes IDS alerts and sends them to sguil
SANCP	TCP/IP session records
Tcpflow	Extract an ASCII dump of a given TCP session
p0f	Operating system fingerprinting
tcpdump	Extracts individual sessions from packet logs
Wireshark	Packet analysis tool (used to be called Ethereal)

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See also

• Sagan
• Intrusion detection system (IDS)
• Intrusion prevention system (IPS)
• Network intrusion detection system (NIDS)
• Metasploit Project
• nmap
• Host-based intrusion detection system comparison

External links

• Sguil Homepage