IDS and IPS with Snort 3.0. Get up and running with Snort 3.0 and discover effective solutions to your security issues

Snort, an open-source intrusion prevention system (IPS), capable of real-time traffic analysis and packet logging, is regarded as the gold standard in IDS and IPS. With the final public beta for Snort 3.0 going live, you’ll get your hands on an updated version of the Snort IPS that features a new design and a superset of Snort 2.X functionality, resulting in higher efficacy and improved performance, scalability, usability, and extensibility. The final release is expected in the latter part of 2024.
This book helps you understand the fundamentals of packet inspection and the progression from intrusion detection to intrusion prevention. The chapters take you through the installation and configuration of Snort, focusing on helping you fine-tune your installation to optimize Snort performance. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with creating and managing Snort rules, deploying Snort, tuning and thresholding, strategies for high bandwidth implementations of Snort, and so on. The examples in this book enable network administrators to understand the real-world application of Snort, while familiarizing them with the inner workings of Snort by analyzing the source code.
By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped to enhance the performance of Snort for even the largest and most complex networks.