This is the first book dealing with the Snort IDS, one of the fastest-growing Intrusion Detection Systems. The text provides valuable insight into the code base of Snort and in-depth tutorials ...

Prior to starting Sourcefire, Roesch created Snort in 1998, a free, open-source network intrusion detection system and intrusion prevention system. Snort became one of the most popular intrusion ...

Barnyard was developed to separate the various output-processing tasks from the more time critical task of monitoring network traffic ... Finally, since the Snort unified files provide a convenient ...