Snort for Dummies

by Scott, Charlie; Wolfe, Paul; Hayes, Bert

• ISBN13: 9780764568350
• ISBN10: 0764568353
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-09
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

Snort is the world's most widely deployed open source intrusion-detection system, with more than 500,000 downloads-a package that can perform protocol analysis, handle content searching and matching, and detect a variety of attacks and probes Drawing on years of security experience and multiple Snort implementations, the authors guide readers through installation, configuration, and management of Snort in a busy operations environment No experience with intrusion detection systems (IDS) required Shows network administrators how to plan an IDS implementation, identify how Snort fits into a security management environment, deploy Snort on Linux and Windows systems, understand and create Snort detection rules, generate reports with ACID and other tools, and discover the nature and source of attacks in real time CD-ROM includes Snort, ACID, and a variety of management tools

Author Biography

Charlie Scott is an Information Security Analyst for the City of Austin, where he helps maintain the City’s network security infrastructure and helps analyze intrusion detection data. He has nearly ten years of experience in the Internet industry and has been an avid user of open source security software that entire time. Charlie is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).

Bert Hayes is a Security Technical Analyst for the State of Texas, where he maintains network security for a medium sized agency. In Bert’s ten years of IT industry experience, he has done everything from managing a corporate IT shop during a successful IPO to performing white hat penetration tests for corporate and government offices. He has long been a proponent of open source solutions, and is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE).

Paul Wolfe is an independent information security consultant and author, specializing in open source security.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Getting to Know Snort and Intrusion Detection

Looking Up Snort's Nose

Fitting In Snort

Readying Your Preflight Checklist

Makin' Bacon: Installing Snort for Linux

Installing Snort and MySQL for Windows

Administering Your Snort Box

Snorting Through Logs and Alerts

Adding Visuals and Getting Reports

Making Your Own Rules

What, Me Worry?

Dealing with the Real Thing

Moving Beyond the Basics

Reacting in Real Time

Keeping Snort Up to Date

Filling Your Farm with Pigs

Using the Barnyard Output Tool

The Part of Tens

Ten Cool Tools for Snort

Ten Snort Information Resources

What's On the CD-ROM

Index

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