Securing Cisco Networks with Open Source Snort

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

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:

• Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA) v2.1

• 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