On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Stephan Gerling wrote:
What would the benefits of time based URL restrictions?
I thought about URL Restriction based on an spezific Time like that:"a user is not able to connect on Recreation or Sport or other URL's that are not for his buisiness relevant ( or no access to the Internet) from an Time Window between 8:00 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr and 13:00 Uhr - 17:00 Uhr. In the Time between 12:00 - 13:00 he is able to connect to the other Sites for private researches, because it is his freetime.
That sounds a lot like "Thought Police". Do you really see a need for things like that?
AFAIK mSQL was originally designed for such a purpose. I have not thought about it yet. I guess it would be no big deal, but how big is the need?
Is it not increasing the Security if the Logfiles are unreachable (for the Intruder) writed into another System, where the Logs are stored (maybe on an worm medium) for further analysis??? I think many people do not think about this. The first way of breaking in a System is, save the Log's, delete your entrys, go your way, before logging out restore the original Log's. So no one will ever seen the really Intruding.
All serious real-life solutions we have been consulting for include the setup of a separate log-host, which takes care of the tamper-proof logs. There are versions of syslog out there which include sequencing and other techniques. With an "SQL-Logging" performance might become an issue.
Did someone use the little brother program from kansmen (www.kansmen.com)???? This progie makes super reports for outgoing traffic. Such reports you can create with the OLAP Service of MS-SQL 7.0 if there is a way to import the data from the logfiles.
Never heard of that. When I have time I will look into it. Does it run under Linux? Is it Open Source?
No, not yet. But they think about an Linux Version. But its not free.
I visited their site. Hmmm.
Stephan Gerling
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