On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 Shankar Ramchandran wrote :
> Dear all
>We need more projects to offer.and mentors for those projects as
>well..We
>are doing quite pathetically on this front..Nevertheless, my
>contribution to
>the project list
>
> 1. A management interface for the Snort IDS. From what I
>understand of the
>industry, this is one piece of GPL software companies are ready
>to go in
>for.Largely , this is because snort is being regarded as a
>quality product,
>the best of whats available.What snort lacks is a management
>interface that
>lets the IDS admin update signatures, edit signatures, change
>configurations
>of his sensors in an enterprise environment through a nice,easy,
>GUI kind of
>way. This is a project that corporates will be interested in, I
>am sure.
>
>2. A network monitoring, system.again something that is visual,
>polished and
>easy to use.. Again this is an area where companies
>compromise..since their
>budget is extinguished after buying desktops, servers, firewalls
>and
>Microsoft licenses ;-). They will jump if they can get a GPLed
>project free.
>
>3. Policy Management tool - something that can be used to manage
>security
>policies..with system roles and responsibilities.auditor, sys-ad,
>user etc.
>I am not sure about this since this will require a knowledge base
>that needs
>to remain updated.
ur ideas all good :). Keep the neurons ticking :)
Regards,
-AH
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