Snort Primer: A FAQ Based Introduction To The Most Popular Open-Source IDS/IPS Program - Softcover

Thomas, Ashley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1519571488 ISBN 13: 9781519571489

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Snort Primer is a beginner level book on Snort, and is aimed at Snort users as well as developers. The book takes a question/answer approach in order to make the reader more acquainted with Snort. Many of these questions are often seen in snort user and developers mailing lists. In addition to guiding the reader through the Snort internals, many examples and use cases are discussed as well. The latest version of Snort, namely 2.9.7 is used whenever code is discussed or experiments and results are shown.

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About the Author

Ashley Thomas is a Security Researcher at Dell SecureWorks, a member of the Counter Threat Unit team. Prior to this role, he was instrumental in building the iSensor - a proprietary network intrusion prevention system. Ashley has a Masters in Computer Networking from North Carolina State University, and also holds couple of certifications including CISSP and GCIA. He has authored several papers in the area of Intrusion Detection, and also holds several patents in this field.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1519571488
• ISBN 13: 9781519571489
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 114