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Securing Cisco Networks with Snort Rule Writing Best Practices (SSFRULES) v2.0

The Securing Cisco Networks with Snort Rule Writing Best Practices (SSFRules) v2.0 course shows you how to write rules for Snort, an open-source intrusion detection and prevention system. Through a combination of expert-instruction and hands-on practice, this course provides you with the knowledge and skills to develop and test custom rules, standard and advanced rules-writing techniques, how to integrate OpenAppID into rules, rules filtering, rules tuning, and more. The hands-on labs give you practice in creating and testing Snort rules.

Securing Cisco Networks with Snort Rule Writing Best Practices (SSFRULES) v2.0

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Learning Objectives

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

     

    Course Details

    Course Outline

    1 - Course Outline
  • Introduction to Snort Rule Development
  • Snort Rule Syntax and Usage
  • Traffic Flow Through Snort Rules
  • Advanced Rule Options
  • OpenAppID Detection
  • Tuning Snort
    • 2 - Lab outline
  • Connecting to the Lab Environment
  • Introducing Snort Rule Development
  • Basic Rule Syntax and Usage
  • Advanced Rule Options
  • OpenAppID
  • Tuning Snort

    • Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.

    Who is it For?

    Target Audience

    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

    Other Prerequisites

    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

    Securing Cisco Networks with Snort Rule Writing Best Practices (SSFRULES) v2.0

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    Course Length : 3 Days

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