
If you are a network administrator, you're under a lot of pressure to ensure that mission-critical systems
are completely safe from malicious code, buffer overflows, stealth port scans, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting
attempts, CGI attacks, and other network intruders. Designing a reliable way to detect intruders before
they get in is an essential--but often overwhelming--challenge. Snort, the defacto open source standard
of intrusion detection tools, is capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging
on IP network. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching, and matching. Snort can save countless
headaches; the new Snort Cookbook will save countless hours of sifting through dubious online advice
or wordy tutorials in order to leverage the full power of SNORT. Each recipe in the popular and practical
problem-solution-discussion O'Reilly cookbook format contains a clear and thorough description
of the problem, a concise but complete discussion of a solution, and real-world examples that illustrate
that solution.