| | |  | TCP/IP | Home » » » Snort for Dummies | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | - 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
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Charlie Scott | | Paperback:
| 372 pages | | Publisher:
| For Dummies | | Publication Date:
| July 09, 2004 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0764568353 | | Product Length:
| 9.18 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.42 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.86 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.33 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.06 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.02 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.37 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Great way to get your feet wet.Oct 18, 2004
By TX_Block
If you want to get your feet wet or you've been tasked with deploying a snort system, this is a good way to start. In the typical, humorous, "for dummies" style, this book walks you through getting, setting up and using Snort and the ACID console.
The book also covers how to maintain and tweak the system, once it is up and running. A good effort by the authors.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Excellent StarterAug 25, 2004
By Bill Cripen
"Billc"
This is a great book for getting startet on snort. I've used other NIDS, but never braved downloading Snort ofr Windows. This book not only provided very detailed step-by-step instructions it also detailed some very useful tools. I really like that its not OS-centric. And Snort's Great!
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
run Snort on a linux machineSep 17, 2005
By W Boudville
One would think sysadmins would not need a Dummies book on network protection. But apparently, some do appreciate a quick course, like that given here. It shows how Snort is available for all the main operating systems. Though the authors point out manifold advantages of running it under linux.
As in being able to reduce linux down to a minimal core system. This may be a significant consideration even if most of your machines are running Microsoft operating systems. Since your Snort machine needs to be as secure as possible. So throwing out optional linux packages reduces the risk of a serious bug in these compromising the machine. Plus, because you never know when your net might be attacked, Snort should run with as much uptime as possible. Routinely, linux boxes are capable of extended uptime. While in principle this is also true of Microsoft machines, in practice they tend to get rebooted far more often.
The book goes further into the actual usages of Snort. But you may want to consider the above as one of the best suggestions in the book.
 Outdated....Sep 07, 2011
By Nathan
This guide was great... 7 years ago I am sure... But MySQL has changed drastically since that time and those sections are rather useless... I wish there was something current...
 Good, but Not CompleteJan 30, 2010
By Mike Calabrese
I purchased this book because I needed to configure Snort on a Linux server at work. I did get some good tips about Snort from this book. However, it did not clearly convey things like you don't need a database to run Snort and that you can run it from a command line. I had to do alot of research on the web and finally got Snort to run on the box. So as the title states, I felt that this book was good but it wasn't complete in it's explanation of Snort.
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