Analyzing traffic from real attacks to demonstrate the best practices for implementing powerful Snort features, this book covers everything from packet inspection to using advanced features to defend ...

Designed to fill the gap left by expensive, heavy-duty network intrusion detection systems, Snort is a free, cross-platform packet sniffer, logger, and intrusion detector for monitoring smaller TCP/IP ...

If you can easily wipe and reload, and if you don't very specifically have your heart absolutely set on OpenBSD, you might want to seriously consider wiping and reloading with Debian or Ubuntu.

So, I've looked on the internet, used search here, and I can't find this answer. I'm a windows admin, installing snort onto an ubuntu machine. I've got it installed and working, but can't figure out ...

To learn more about keeping our network from being compromised, we subscribed to a security mailing list. We have read about the Snort intrusion-detection system. Can we run it on a Windows system and ...

One indication that an idea's time has come is when two publications on the topic arrive at the same time. Based on the two titles reviewed here, it's apparent that Snort is going mainstream. These ...

Network-based intrusion-detection systems (IDS) are an integral component of a layered IT security strategy. As October is National Cyber Awareness Month, if your overall security system doesn’t ...

In this chapter, we?re going to be using our Snort sensor in a security server context, so we ve got lots to consider with regard to our operating system choice. When choosing an operating system for ...