This week, thanks to some holiday in Belgium, the weekend started on a Wednesday evening instead of a Friday. Every week should have a 4-day weekend!

Apart from some sleeping in, squash, hanging out in the pub, going out, catching up on my favorite feeds, watching some TV (I have refound my old love for South Park ), assembling a new gas barbecue (and eating food from it ), I have been playing with sguil.

Sguil is an open source framework to practice network security monitoring (NSM). It uses SANCP and barnyard to analyze Snort data. It seems like a good framework but the documentation is, in my opinion, not the best I have ever seen. After some compilation issues, I have managed to get all the needed software compiled now on my Linux box. The only thing left to do is to configure it to match my needs.

But, that will be something for later. Right now, Jack Bauer is eager to get his nephew back from the Chinese.