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IDS and IPS with Snort 3
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IDS and IPS with Snort 3

by Ashley Thomas
September 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
256 pages
6h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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HTTP Inspector

HTTP is one of the most prevalent protocols used over the internet. Recent statistics show that there are more than five billion internet users currently. There are more than 150 million .com domains, which is the most of any top-level domains. The total number of websites exceeds 2 billion; there were 300 million online shoppers in the US in 2023. Web traffic is at the core of the internet, and HTTP still plays a key role. Subsequently, a significant percentage of attacks and breaches occur via HTTP. According to the 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report conducted by Verizon, 26% of breaches occurred via HTTP. In order to successfully detect malicious behavior and attacks over HTTP, the Snort system will have to decode the ...

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