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
- ISBN13 9780470221938
- Publish Date 14 May 2007 (first published 14 June 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 September 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint For Dummies
- Edition 1st edition
- Format eBook
- Pages 372
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com