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Applied Network Security Monitoring
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Applied Network Security Monitoring

by Chris Sanders, Jason Smith
November 2013
Beginner
496 pages
14h 23m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 9

Signature-Based Detection with Snort and Suricata

Abstract

The most common form of IDS is signature-based. Signature-based detection has been the bread and butter of network-based defensive security for over a decade. These systems work by examining packet data for indicators of compromise. Indicators are combined with IDS platform-specific directives to form signatures (also called rules) that instruct the IDS how to efficiently locate the indicators within network data. This chapter demonstrates the power of signature-based detection with two popular IDS engines, Snort and Suricata. It discusses the architecture and configuration of both tools before discussing how IDS rules are created. Tips are given for effective rule creation, ...

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