Opleiding: Securing Cisco Networks with Open Source Snort (SSFSNORT)

The Securing Cisco Networks with Open Source Snort (SSFSNORT) training shows you how to deploy a network intrusion detection system based on Snort. Through a combination of expert instruction and h...

The Securing Cisco Networks with Open Source Snort (SSFSNORT) training shows you how to deploy a network intrusion detection system based on Snort. Through a combination of expert instruction and hands-on practice, you will learn how to install, configure, operate, and manage a Snort system. You will also explore rules writing with an overview of basic options, advanced rules writing, how to configure PulledPork, and how to use OpenAppID to provide protection of your network from malware. You will learn techniques of tuning and performance monitoring, traffic flow through Snort rules, and more.


How You'll Benefit


This training will help you:



- Learn how to implement Snort, an open-source, rule-based, intrusion detection and prevention system
- Gain leading-edge skills for high-demand responsibilities focused on security
- Earn 20 CE credits towards recertification

- Describe Snort technology and identify the resources available for maintaining a Snort deployment
- Install and configure a Snort deployment
- Configure the command-line options for starting a Snort as a sniffer, a logger, and an intrusion detector, and create a script to start Snort automatically
- Identify and configure available Snort intrusion detection outputs
- Describe rule sources, updates, and utilities for managing rules and updates
- Detail the components of the snort.lua file an...

This course is for technical professionals who need to know how to deploy open source intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and how to write Snort rules.


- Security administrators
- Security consultants
- Network administrators
- System engineers
- Technical support personnel
- Channel partners and resellers

- Snort Technology Introduction
- Snort Installation
- Snort Operation Introduction
- Snort Intrusion Detection Output
- Rule Management
- Snort Configuration
- Inline Configuration and Operation
- Snort Rule Syntax and Usage
- Snort Rule Traffic Processing Flow
- Advanced Rule Options
- OpenAppID Detection Configuration
- Snort Tuning