Snort IDS and IPS Toolkit

Brian Caswell, Jay Beale, Andrew Baker9781597490993, 1597490997

This all new book covering the brand new Snort version 2.6 from members of the Snort developers team. This fully integrated book, CD, and Web toolkit covers everything from packet inspection to optimizing Snort for speed to using the most advanced features of Snort to defend even the largest and most congested enterprise networks. Leading Snort experts Brian Caswell, Andrew Baker, and Jay Beale analyze traffic from real attacks to demonstrate the best practices for implementing the most powerful Snort features.
The accompanying CD contains examples from real attacks allowing readers test their new skills. The book will begin with a discussion of packet inspection and the progression from intrusion detection to intrusion prevention. The authors provide examples of packet inspection methods including: protocol standards compliance, protocol anomaly detection, application control, and signature matching. In addition, application-level vulnerabilities including Binary Code in HTTP headers, HTTP/HTTPS Tunneling, URL Directory Traversal, Cross-Site Scripting, and SQL Injection will also be analyzed. Next, a brief chapter on installing and configuring Snort will highlight various methods for fine tuning your installation to optimize Snort performance including hardware/OS selection, finding and eliminating bottlenecks, and benchmarking and testing your deployment. A special chapter also details how to use Barnyard to improve the overall performance of Snort. Next, best practices will be presented allowing readers to enhance the performance of Snort for even the largest and most complex networks. The next chapter reveals the inner workings of Snort by analyzing the source code. The next several chapters will detail how to write, modify, and fine-tune basic to advanced rules and pre-processors. Detailed analysis of real packet captures will be provided both in the book and the accompanying CD. Several examples for optimizing output plugins will then be discussed including a comparison of MySQL and PostrgreSQL. Best practices for monitoring Snort sensors and analyzing intrusion data follow with examples of real world attacks using: ACID, BASE, SGUIL, SnortSnarf, Snort_stat.pl, Swatch, and more.
The last part of the book contains several chapters on active response, intrusion prevention, and using Snort’s most advanced capabilities for everything from forensics and incident handling to building and analyzing honey pots. Data from real world attacks will be presented throughout this part as well as on the accompanying CD.
* This fully integrated book, CD, and Web toolkit covers everything all in one convenient package
* It is authored by members of the Snort team and it is packed full of their experience and expertise
* Includes full coverage of the brand new Snort version 2.6, packed full of all the latest information

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Table of contents :
Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention Toolkit……Page 1
Contents……Page 19
Foreword……Page 35
Intrusion Detection Systems……Page 37
Introducing Snort 2.6……Page 67
Installing Snort 2.6……Page 105
Configuring Snort and Add-Ons……Page 169
Inner Workings……Page 211
Preprocessors……Page 261
Playing by the Rules……Page 331
Snort Output Plug-Ins……Page 379
Exploring IDS Event Analysis, Snort Style……Page 447
Optimizing Snort……Page 535
Active Response……Page 593
Advanced Snort……Page 657
Mucking Around with Barnyard……Page 681
Index……Page 753