Course Overview
The Securing Cisco Networks with Open Source Snort (SSFSNORT) training shows you how to deploy a network intrusion detection system based on Snort. Through a combination of expert instruction and hands-on practice, you will learn how to install, configure, operate, and manage a Snort system. You will also explore rules writing with an overview of basic options, advanced rules writing, how to configure PulledPork, and how to use OpenAppID to provide protection of your network from malware. You will learn techniques of tuning and performance monitoring, traffic flow through Snort rules, and more.
How You'll Benefit
This training will help you:
- Learn how to implement Snort, an open-source, rule-based, intrusion detection and prevention system
- Gain leading-edge skills for high-demand responsibilities focused on security
- Earn 20 CE credits towards recertification
Moyens d'évaluation :
- Quiz pré-formation de vérification des connaissances (si applicable)
- Évaluations formatives pendant la formation, à travers les travaux pratiques réalisés sur les labs à l’issue de chaque module, QCM, mises en situation…
- Complétion par chaque participant d’un questionnaire et/ou questionnaire de positionnement en amont et à l’issue de la formation pour validation de l’acquisition des compétences
Who should attend
This course is for technical professionals who need to know how to deploy open source intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and how to write Snort rules.
- Security administrators
- Security consultants
- Network administrators
- System engineers
- Technical support personnel
- Channel partners and resellers
Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites for this training. However, the knowledge and skills you are recommended to have before attending this training are:
- Technical understanding of transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) networking and network architecture
- Proficiency with Linux and UNIX text editing tools, such as vi editor
These skills can be found in the following Cisco Learning Offering:
Course Objectives
- Describe Snort technology and identify the resources available for maintaining a Snort deployment
- Install and configure a Snort deployment
- Configure the command-line options for starting a Snort as a sniffer, a logger, and an intrusion detector, and create a script to start Snort automatically
- Identify and configure available Snort intrusion detection outputs
- Describe rule sources, updates, and utilities for managing rules and updates
- Detail the components of the snort.lua file and determine how to configure it for your deployment
- Configure Snort for inline operation using the inline-only features
- Configure rules for Snort using basic rule syntax
- Describe how traffic flows through Snort and how to optimize rules for better performance
- Configure advanced-rule options for Snort rules
- Configure OpenAppID features and functionality
- Tune Snort for efficient operation and profile system performance
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