Snort For Dummies - Couverture souple

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.

Choose the right way to deploy and configure Snort no experience required!

Who knows what evil is poking around your network perimeter? Snort will sniff out worms, system crackers, and other bad guys, and this friendly guide helps you train Snort to do your bidding. Discover how intrusion detection systems work, what kind you need, how to install and manage Snort on Linux® or Windows® systems, and more.

All this on the bonus CD–ROM

• Snort Intrusion Detection System for Linux and Windows
• ACID Snort Visualization Console
• Barnyard unified logging tool and Oinkmaster rule manager
• Assorted other Snort management tools

Discover how to:

• Integrate Snort into your security plan
• Decide on the best deployment
• Create and update detection rules
• Generate reports with ACID
• Get real–time alerts in case of attack