Learn to Configure Snort IDS and Create Rules | Linux Today

Learn to Configure Snort IDS and Create Rules

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Ivan Vanney
Mar 11, 2018

Snort is an open source Intrusion Detection System (IDS) that you can use on your Linux systems to detect attacks and unauthorized system access or compromise. This tutorial will go over the basic configuration of Snort IDS and teach you how to create rules to detect different types of activities on the system. Let’s get started.

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Ivan Vanney

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