Securing Cisco Networks with Snort Rule Writing Best Practices

This course is for technical professionals to gain skills in writing rules for Snort-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS). The primary audience includes:

• Security administrators
• Security consultants
• Network administrators
• System engineers
• Technical support personnel using open source IDS and IPS
• Channel partners and resellers

To fully benefit from this course, you should have:

• Basic understanding of networking and network protocols
• Basic knowledge of Linux command-line utilities
• Basic knowledge of text editing utilities commonly found in Linux
• Basic knowledge of network security concepts
• Basic knowledge of a Snort-based IDS/IPS system

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the Snort rule development process
• Describe the Snort basic rule syntax and usage
• Describe how traffic is processed by Snort
• Describe several advanced rule options used by Snort
• Describe OpenAppID features and functionality
• Describe how to monitor the performance of Snort and how to tune rules