Are There Risks in Sharing Firewall Logs?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 13, 2001 @06:33AM from the looking-before-leaping dept.

FireballDWF asks: "What are the risks in sharing my personal Firewall logs with others? I ask as helping to put a stop to detect and stop attacks at their source by becoming an agent for MyNetWatchman sounds easy and appealing, but I am concerned about the possible risks." The MyNetWatchman service is designed to take a pro-active approach to network security. A network agent sits on a users firewall and forwards log entries to a central server that analyzes the data and warns the user if suspicious activity occurs. Sounds like a good plan, but what dangers (if any) will the users of this service be exposing themselves to by providing such access to their machines, even if they are just log files?

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There is some security in obscurity. by Anton+Anatopopov · 2001-11-13 07:10 · Score: 2, Interesting

For sure, it is better to have end-to-end strong encryption, but for some of us, that is impractical. I would be reluctant to share my logs with anyone, since it amounst to a 'customer list' of my organization.
I think the best security involves both encryption, AND obscurity. Stands to reason really.