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IDS and IPS with Snort 3

This is the code repository for IDS and IPS with Snort 3, published by Packt.

Get up and running with Snort 3 and discover effective solutions to your security issues

What is this book about?

This book covers the following exciting features:

  • Understand the key changes in Snort 3 and troubleshoot common Snort 3 issues
  • Explore the landscape of open source IDS/IPS solutions
  • Write new Snort 3 signatures based on new threats and translate existing Snort 2 signatures to Snort 3
  • Write and optimize Snort 3 rules to detect and prevent a wide variety of threats
  • Leverage OpenAppID for application detection and control
  • Optimize Snort 3 for ideal detection rate, performance, and resource constraints

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Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example,

The code will look like the following:

alert tcp any any -> $HOME_NET [80,8080] (msg:"SQL Injection Detected"; flow:established,to_server; http_uri; content:"/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/demo_vul/endpoint.php"; content:"union"; distance:0; http_uri; content:"select"; distance:0; nocase; content:"from"; distance:0; nocase; sid:123;)

Following is what you need for this book: This book is for network administrators, security administrators, security consultants, and other security professionals. Those using other IDSs will also gain from this book as it covers the basic inner workings of any IDS. Although there are no prerequisites, basic familiarity with Linux systems and knowledge of basic network packet analysis will be very helpful

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-16).

Software and Hardware List

Chapter Software required OS required
1-16 Snort Linux

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Get to Know the Author

Ashley Thomas is a security researcher at Dell SecureWorks and a member of the Counter Threat Unit team. Before this role, he was instrumental in building the iSensor, a proprietary network intrusion prevention system. Ashley has a master's in computer networking from North Carolina State University, and he also holds several other certifications, including CISSP, GCIA, GREM, GCLD, and GWEB. He has authored several papers on intrusion detection and holds several patents in this field.

Author's Note

This github repository contains various files that go along with the content provided in the book, IDS-and-IPS-with-Snort-3.0. The files and other contents here are organized by chapters. Under each chapter you will the following, namely

  1. a list of snort signatures that were referenced in the chapter
  2. the relevant packet capture files that were referenced in the chapter
  3. the relevant diagrams that were referenced in the chapter and which required a higher resolution version for visual clarity.
  4. a list of commands that were referenced in the chapter such as installation commands or commands to execute snort.

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