"[This book] shows you how to protect your network with the Snort Intrusion Detection System. Snort is a powerful open source tool that watches your network constantly, inspecting all the traffic, looking for suspicious activity, and warning you when something fishy is happening…
A comprehensive resource for monitoring illegal entry attempts, 'Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools' provides step-by-step instructions on getting up and running with Snort 2.1 and how to shut down and secure workstations, servers, firewalls, routers, sensors and other n…
Intrusion detection is not for the faint at heart. But, if you are a network administrator chances are you're under increasing pressure to ensure that mission-critical systems are safe--in fact impenetrable--from malicious code, buffer overflows, stealth port scans, SMB probes, …