CCNP Security IPS 642-627 Official Cert Guide

Chapter 12. Customizing Traffic Analysis

In this chapter, you learn how to create and manage custom signatures. By learning how to create custom signatures, you will be able to meet these objectives:

• Understanding Custom Signatures: When the default signatures don’t provide all the matching that needs to be done, you can create your own.

• Using the Custom Signature Wizard: This wizard will walk you through a series of questions that it will use to create the final signature based on your responses.

• Creating Custom Signatures Without the Wizard: For advanced users or individuals who need to create a signature that the wizard doesn’t have the ability to create.

Overview

There are thousands of signatures that we can use that are built into ...