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Title: Intrusion Detection with Snort by Jack Koziol ISBN: 1-57870-281-X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 20 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Helpful book, Linux-centric
Comment: This is a very handy book, if only because it presents a lot of Snort documentation in a friendly, easy-to-read format. Is every chapter a joyous literary experience? No. But it beats reading manpages and after a few hours of reading from my monitor my eyes sting.
So the material.... This book introduces Snort, what it is/does, etc, then moves on to how it works. I really enjoyed chapter 3, which looks into all the preprocessors and a brief desciption of Snort's order of operations and modularity.
I would especially recommend chapters 4 and 5 to new Snorters since design issues comprise a huge part of the questions posed to the Snort mailing list, most of which have easy or standard answers. After that, the installation/configuration chapters demonstrate how to get a running setup using RedHat.
I've read a couple complaints in earlier reviews that these instructions don't work and I must say that it is exceedingly difficult to write an installation procedure that incorporates half a dozen different pieces of software, all of which are under seperate development. I actually know about this because I maintain the FreeBSD install guide on the snort site and the instructions that work one week are slightly off the next week. Use the instructions in this book as a guide and you probably won't have much dirty work to figure out on your own.
The rest of the book gets into the nitty-gritty of using Snort and I think it does a pretty good job. This includes tuning signature sets to use less memory/CPU and to generate more reliable alerts. False positives are the bane of the IDS world. If you're new to Snort/IDS then you'll enjoy learning of several great tools like Swatch and Barnyard that this book explores.
Overall I think this book is well worth the 31 clams I coughed up on Amazon.
Rating: 5
Summary: A comprehensive and instructive book
Comment: When I first got this book, I had little idea what Snort did, other than being used for intrusion detection. And while I'm not an expert in Snort now that I've finished it, the book is simply a comprehensive step by step guide to using this useful tool. I am not an expert in computer security by any stretch, but I've read enough computer books to know intelligent, useful information when I read it. Although I do not have a big enough box to run Snort, I feel confident that using the author's instructions as a guideline along with some common sense I could get it up and running, which I will be doing in the near future. I particularly liked the fact that the author discussed other add ons and software that are essential or ease using Snort, but are not part of Snort itself.
The book is laid out in a logical, easy to understand manner, and I will definitely using this as my reference once I get a box I can put it on.
Rating: 4
Summary: A keeper
Comment: The solid ratings and reviews for this book are appropriate. It is well written, informative, and moves at a nice clip. Very helpful considering the modest documentation available on the snort site.
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