Securing Cisco Networks with Snort Rule Writing Best Practices

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

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

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

- Introduction to Snort Rule Development - Snort Rule Syntax and Usage - Traffic Flow Through Snort Rules - Advanced Rule Options - OpenAppID Detection - Tuning Snort

The Securing Cisco Networks with Snort Rule Writing Best Practices (SSFRules) v2.1 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. This course will help you: - Gain an understanding of characteristics of a typical Snort rule development environment - Gain hands-on practices on creating rules for Snort - Gain knowledge in Snort rule development, Snort rule language, standard and advanced rule options