Accenture MDR Quick Start Guide for Symantec Anomaly Detection for Industrial Control Systems

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Last updated: Apr 30, 2021
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This quick start guide will help Accenture MDR customers configure the Symantec Anomaly Detection (AD) for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) event collector to send logs to the Log Collection Platform (LCP). 

 This document includes the following topics:

 

Supported Versions

A list of supported versions is available in the Accenture MDR Supported Products List document (Accenture_MSS_Supported_Products_List.xlsx) which can be found in Accenture MDR Portal - https://mss.accenture.com/PortalNextGen/Reports/Documents

Port Requirements

Table 1-1: Port requirements for LCP communication.

Source

Destination

Port

Description

ICS Event Collector

LCP 

514 (UDP)

Default port

Configuring ICS Event Collector

To forward event logs to the LCP, the following files need to be configured as required.

  1. Set the syslog server IP address and port.

    1. Go to <install_folder>/symc_ad_industrial/etc/config/log4j.properties

    2. Set log4j.appender.syslog.SyslogHost=<LCP_IP_Address>:514

  2. Enable Syslog Integration. By default, it will be false.

    1. Go to <install_folder>/symc_ad_industrial/etc/config/config.properties

    2. Set SYSLOG.ENABLE = true

  3. Change the syslog update frequency.

    1. Go to <install_folder>/symc_ad_industrial/etc/config/config_internal.properties

    2. Set ALERT_MANAGER.EVENT_LOG_INTERVAL_IN_SECS = 60

LCP Configuration Parameters   

Table 1-2: ICS event collector (Syslog -3820) properties to be configured by MSS are shown in the table.

Property 

Default Value

Description

Protocol

UDP

The default protocol for syslog. At present, only UDP is supported.

IP Address

<Device IP address>

Logging device IP address mentioned in the Pre-Installation Questionnaire (PIQ).

Note: If the device sends logs using multiple interfaces, contact the Accenture Security MSS onboarding team.

Signatures

SymantecAnomalyDetectionICSLog

MSS recommended signatures processed by the ICS event collector.

Port Number

514

The default port for syslog.

Note: The LCP can be configured to listen on a non-standard port, please advise the Accenture Security MSS onboarding

team if this is a requirement.

 

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