Snort

Network security has become an important part of corporate IT strategy and safeguarding all the nooks and crannies of your network can be timely and expensive. This book provides information about how to use free Open Source tools to build and manage an Intrusion Detection System. Rehman provides detailed information about using SNORT as an IDS and using Apache, MySQL, PHP and ACID to analyze intrusion data.

Snort For Dummies covers everything the reader needs to:
* Learn why and how an IDS should be implemented
* Identify how Snort fits in to a security management environment
* Deploy Snort on Linux and Windows systems
* Understand and create Snort detection rules
* Generate reports with ACID and other tools
* Discover the nature and source of attacks real-time.