Intrusion Detection with Snort: Advanced Ids Techniques Using Snort, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Acid

by Rafeeq Rehman

Book Overview

Network security has become an important part of corporate IT strategy and safeguarding all the nooks and crannies of your network can be timely and expensive. This book provides information about how... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131407333
• ISBN13: 9780131407336
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Good IDS|Snort book

This book is an effective introduction to Intruder Detection, demonstrating how popular open-source tools can be used. I found the code samples, table, diagrams and screenshots to be clear and useful. I learned what I'd hoped to learn and feel empowered to set up an IDS myself. Plenty of links and resources when I want to learn more.I read a few of the other reviews here after I read the book... especially Richard B's. I noticed some of the same techinical mistakes, but don't feel that they are a big deal. As a sr. software engineer and techinical editor, I always read critically, just mentally note them and continue. They aren't the kind of mistakes that make the code useless, or would confuse/mislead any level of reader. Another editing pass would help most books, and I none of the grammar mistakes annoy me - I read to learn what I can and move on, not to nitpick or get annoyed. As far as 1.9 vs. 2.0, I've looked at the snort site and agree that the release is signficant, but it doesn't break backwards compatibility, so it doesn't make this book any less revelant. 2.0 seems to mostly change the backend implementation - *the application is used identically* so I suspect the vast majority of this book is unaffected. The Syngress book covers 2.0, yet so does the website, which hypes this two-times-more-expensive book. That book too will no doubt soon be superceded, so read whatever you buy immediately ;-)

Great hands-on coverage of snort

I really like books that are to the point and filled with examples. This is such a book. It enables the reader to get up and going quickly. The reader is guided through installation and each component of SNORT. Once the basics are covered, the author moves to more advanced topics and integrating other tools like Apache, MySQL, and ACID. All told, it presents an excellent approach to building an IDS.

Concise and to the point

A good book which is concise, to the point, and helps quickly build a complete IDS. It is fully focused on the Snort IDS without distracting the reader into sideline issues.

Intrusion Detection with SNORT

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