* Snort is the world's most widely deployed open sourceintrusion-detection system, with more than 500,000 downloads-apackage that can perform protocol analysis, handle contentsearching and matching, and detect a variety of attacks andprobes
* Drawing on years of security experience and multiple Snortimplementations, the authors guide readers through installation,configuration, and management of Snort in a busy operationsenvironment
* 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 createSnort 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 managementtools
Charlie Scott
Computer Science Informatik Networking / Security Netzwerke / Sicherheit Netzwerksicherheit