Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

Getting Snort in prebuilt appliances

Snort itself isn't too terribly difficult to set up. However, if you're doing everything manually, it can be a bit tedious by the time you've set up the control console, the sensors, and your choice of graphical frontends. So—and, imagine me peering at you over my dark glasses as I say this—what if I told you that you can get your Snort setup as part of a ready-to-go appliance? What if I told you that setting up such an appliance is an absolute breeze? I imagine that you'd probably say, So, show me already!

If you feel bad about cheating by making Snort deployment so easy, there's really no need to. An official Snort representative once told me that most people deploy Snort in this manner.

Since Snort ...