topic Re: Reconnaissance Protection tresholds in Advanced Threat Prevention Discussions

Reconnaissance Protection tresholds

Gregoryp — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:35:11 GMT

Hello there,

I am in the process of configuring our reconnaissance protection profile and need some advice on best practices for interval and tresholds (events). I have been searching through the docs and can't find recommended settings for the below interval and threshold.

- TCP Port Scan

- Host Sweep

- UDP Port Scan

I currently set 2 seconds for interval and 10 events for treshold. Wondering what is the best practice here.

Device: PA 850

OS: 8.0.18

Thanks!

Re: Reconnaissance Protection tresholds

CRDF18 — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:59:35 GMT

im in the same boat, but cant see much out there for best practises. I noticed we still get port scanned a bit so keen to try and minimise this as much as possible

Re: Reconnaissance Protection tresholds

SutareMayur — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 09:07:01 GMT

There is no best practice as such for this configuration. It depends on how you want to configure it in order to take actions on such events. You can keep as default and initially keep action as 'alert' to check if those thresholds are getting hits in real time.

- Mayur

Re: Reconnaissance Protection tresholds

CRDF18 — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 10:07:21 GMT

thanks Mayur that is the same conclusion i came to so i have just been tweaking it in recent weeks

Re: Reconnaissance Protection tresholds

Gregoryp — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:07:01 GMT

Thanks Mayur, this is the most sensible approach indeed.