I’m currently testing out and so far happy with JumpCloud.com for a host based 
IDS (as well as auth and patch monitoring). 

 cjs

On Feb 28, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Paul Graydon <[email protected]> wrote:

> From the host end, I've found OSSEC to be very useful.  It takes a little 
> tuning (as do most of these solutions)
> but I've found it does a great job.  I've actually got it running on my own 
> VPS too.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:28:34PM -0500, Matt Disney wrote:
>>   There are a variety of factors here. I assume you mean a network-based
>>   IDS, rather than host-based, and that you want to do packet inspection.
>> 
>>   Snort, suricata, and bro are popular open source options. I recommend
>>   subscribing to some kind of threat feed to get new IDS rules from a vendor
>>   or community. I'm not sure what's available for suricata or bro but for
>>   Snort you could get the emergingthreats feed or pay for the VRT from
>>   Sourcefire/Cisco (the corporate ummm sponsor of Snort).
>> 
>>   If you want high performance, say 10Gb, then your needs are sorta special.
>> 
>>   I've liked the scenario of deploying both snort with a threat feed and bro
>>   as complementary. I haven't played with suricata.
>> 
>>   Is this the kind of thing you have in mind? If you have a big budget there
>>   are also commercial options we could discuss.
>>   Matt
>> 
>>   On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Ali Sajid Imami
>>   <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>     At work, we have been tasked with setting us up for various security
>>     certifications. one step is putting a good IDS in place. I was wondering
>>     if people here had any good recommendations?
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