Securing NS with Suricata and Threat Shields

See the firehol blocklist documentation for choosing the right lists to enable.

I just use a basic set: Blocklist de, Dshield, Feodo, Spamhaus drop, Spamhaus edrop, Iblocklist abuse palevo, Sslbl, Zeus badips.

As regards suricata see the documentation to learn about the different rule categories.

I block following IPS rule categories, the others are set to alert:

BlockCategories=ET-botcc.portgrouped,ET-botcc,ET-ciarmy,ET-compromised,ET-drop,ET-dshield,ET-emerging-activex,ET-emerging-attack_response,ET-emerging-exploit,ET-emerging-malware,ET-emerging-netbios

To output your blocked categories just enter

config show suricata

in a terminal.

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