Managing Rules¶
Updating Rules¶
To update your rules, run so-rule-update on your manager node:
sudo so-rule-update
If you have a distributed deployment and you update the rules on your manager node, then those rules will automatically replicate from the manager node to your sensors within 15 minutes. If you don’t want to wait 15 minutes, you can force the sensors to update immediately by running the following command on your manager node:
sudo salt \* state.highstate
Rulesets¶
Security Onion offers the following choices for rulesets to be used by Suricata.
ET Pro (Proofpoint)¶
- optimized for Suricata, but available for Snort as well
- rules retrievable as released
- license fee per sensor (users are responsible for purchasing enough licenses for their entire deployment)
For more information, see:
Snort Registered¶
- optimized for Snort
- Snort SO (Shared Object) rules will only work with Snort
- same rules as Snort Subscriber ruleset, except rules only retrievable after 30 days past release
- free
For more information, see:
Snort Subscriber (Talos)¶
- optimized for Snort
- Snort SO (Shared Object) rules will only work with Snort
- rules retrievable as released
- license fee per sensor (users are responsible for purchasing enough licenses for their entire deployment)
For more information, see: