The Securing Cisco Networks with Snort Rule Writing Best Practices (SSFRules) v2.1 course shows you how to write rules for Snort, an open-source intrusion detection and prevention system. Through a combination of expert-instruction and hands-on practice, this course provides you with the knowledge and skills to develop and test custom rules, standard and advanced rules-writing techniques, how to integrate OpenAppID into rules, rules filtering, rules tuning, and more. The hands-on labs give you practice in creating and testing Snort rules.

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Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:
Describe the Snort rule development process
Describe the Snort basic rule syntax and usage
Describe how traffic is processed by Snort
Describe several advanced rule options used by Snort
Describe OpenAppID features and functionality
Describe how to monitor the performance of Snort and how to tune rules

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  • COURSE OUTLINE

  • Introduction to Snort Rule Development

    Snort Rule Syntax and Usage

    Traffic Flow Through Snort Rules

    Advanced Rule Options

    OpenAppID Detection

    Tuning Snort

Audience

This course is for technical professionals to gain skills in writing rules for Snort-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). The primary audience includes: Security administrators Security consultants Network administrators System engineers Technical support personnel using open source IDS and IPS Channel partners and resellers

Language

English

Prerequisites

To fully benefit from this course, you should have: Basic understanding of networking and network protocols Basic knowledge of Linux command-line utilities Basic knowledge of text editing utilities commonly found in Linux Basic knowledge of network security concepts Basic knowledge of a Snort-based IDS/IPS system

$3,000

Length: 3.0 days (24 hours)

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