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Deploying Intrusion Detection Policies

Note: This topic applies to the Edinburgh Release.

The Intrusion System’s default policies enable you to deploy Intrusion Detection immediately to identify threats on your network. Any custom policies you create are deployed in the same method.

ClosedTo deploy an intrusion detection policy
1. Go to Services > Intrusion system > IDS.

2. Enable the Intrusion System by checking Status in the Global panel.
3. Click Add new IDS policy.
4. Configure the following:
• Status — New policies are enabled by default. Clear the check box to create a disabled policy.
• Interface — From the drop-down list, select the interface to deploy this policy for.
• Policy — Select those policies that you want to apply to this interface.
• Comment — Configure an optional comment for this policy.

An additional button, Show comments, will be displayed on the IDS policies table if any comments are configured. Clicking this will display configured comments under the interface name.

5. Click Add.
ClosedEditing Deployed Intrusion Detection Policies
1. Go to Services > Intrusion system > IDS.
2. Scroll down to the IDS policies panel.
3. Highlight the relevant policy, and click Edit.
4. Edit the configuration as required. For a detailed description of each setting, see Deploying Intrusion Detection Policies.
5. Click Save changes.
ClosedDeleting Deployed Intrusion Detection Policies
1. Go to Services > Intrusion system > IDS.
2. Scroll down to the IDS policies panel.
3. Highlight the relevant policy, and click Delete.
4. Click Delete to confirm deleting the policy.