IDS and IPS with Snort 3
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook (September 27, 2024)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1800566166
- ISBN-13: 978-1800566163
eBook Description:
IDS and IPS with Snort 3: Get up and running with Snort 3 and discover effective solutions to your security issues. Learn the essentials of Snort 3.0, including installation, configuration, system architecture, and tuning to develop effective intrusion detection and prevention solutions with this easy-to-follow guide.
Snort, an open source intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS), capable of real-time traffic analysis and packet logging, is regarded as the gold standard in IDS and IPS. The new version, Snort 3, is a major upgrade to the Snort IDS/IPS, featuring a new design and enhanced detection functionality, resulting in higher efficacy and improved performance, scalability, usability, and extensibility. Snort 3 is the latest version of Snort, with the current version at the time of writing being Snort v3.3.3.
This book will help you understand the fundamentals of packet inspection in Snort and familiarize you with the various components of Snort. The chapters take you through the installation and configuration of Snort, focusing on helping you fine-tune your installation to optimize Snort performance. You’ll get to grips with creating and modifying Snort rules, fine-tuning specific modules, deploying and configuring, as well as troubleshooting Snort. The examples in this book enable network administrators to understand the real-world application of Snort, while familiarizing them with the functionality and configuration aspects.
- Understand the key changes in Snort 3 and troubleshoot common Snort 3 issues
- Explore the landscape of open source IDS/IPS solutions
- Write new Snort 3 signatures based on new threats and translate existing Snort 2 signatures to Snort 3
- Write and optimize Snort 3 rules to detect and prevent a wide variety of threats
- Leverage OpenAppID for application detection and control
- Optimize Snort 3 for ideal detection rate, performance, and resource constraints
By the end of this IDS and IPS with Snort 3 book, you’ll be well-equipped to leverage Snort to improve the security posture of even the largest and most complex networks.