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Use case: IDS Suricata AB

Purpose

This Use Case allows you to visualize IDS Suricata Activeboard using synthetic sample data. It is composed of one injector to simulate an intrusion attack and one receptor to monitor it.

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Injection for Suricata IDS AB

Injector: Synthetic data

IDS events prepared to simulate an intrusion attack. The injection is continuous (starts over after injecting the last event).

Suricata IDS Attacks Overview

Receptor Activeboard

Set of widgets prepared to visualize and monitor intrusion attacks graphically.

Open use case

Receptor: once the use case has been launched, you can use the Open button at the top right of the card in Exchange to access the receptor, where you can carry out certain actions depending on the type of item the receptor is. You can also access the receptor in question via the Navigation pane.

Injector: if you want to open the injector to check the data it contains, you can click on its name in the Included contents section to access its card and then click the Open button at the top right of the card. You can also access the data table using finders or LINQ via the Navigation pane (Data Search area → Explore your data tab).

Work with use case

Receptor: after launching the use case, you can use the receptor for the intended purpose, which can be an Activeboard to visualize and analyze data graphically, an alert with conditions to find anomalous events, or an application to further operate with the data.

Injector: you can also use the synthetic data in contexts other than the intended one or event manipulate the data in the search window.