(SSFRULES) Securing Cisco Networks with Snort Rule Writing Best Practices
Protect your network with SSFRULES training: hands-on practice and expert instruction in Snort rule-writing to enhance your security measures.
Duration
3 days
Version
2.1
CE Credits
24
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CLCs
28
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Dates and Prices
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26.01.2026 - 28.01.2026 |
English |
Online, GMT+1 |
1990€ 2010 $ |
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Course Overview
Securing Cisco Networks with Snort Rule Writing Best Practices (SSFRULES) is an instructor-led or virtual instructor-led course that shows you how to write rules for Snort, an open-source intrusion detection and prevention system. Through a combination of expert-instruction and hands-on practice, this course provides you with the knowledge and skills to develop and test custom rules, standard and advanced rules-writing techniques, how to integrate OpenAppID into rules, rules filtering, rules tuning, and more. The hands-on labs give you practice in creating and testing Snort rules.
This course will help you:
- Gain an understanding of characteristics of a typical Snort rule development environment
- Gain hands-on practices on creating rules for Snort
- Gain knowledge in Snort rule development, Snort rule language, standard and advanced rule options
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- Describe the Snort rule development process
- Describe the Snort basic rule syntax and usage
- Describe how traffic is processed by Snort
- Describe several advanced rule options used by Snort
- Describe OpenAppID features and functionality
- Describe how to monitor the performance of Snort and how to tune rules
Who should enroll?
This course is for technical professionals to gain skills in writing rules for Snort-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS). The primary audience includes:
- Security administrators
- Security consultants
- Network administrators
- System engineers
- Technical support personnel using open source IDS and IPS
- Channel partners and resellers
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Course Outline
- Module 1: Introduction to Snort Rule Development
- Module 2: Snort Rule Syntax and Usage
- Module 3: Traffic Flow Through Snort Rules
- Module 4: Advanced Rule Options
- Module 5: OpenAppID Detection
- Module 6: Tuning Snort
Lab Outline
- Lab 1: Connecting to the Lab Environment
- Lab 2: Introducing Snort Rule Development
- Lab 3: Basic Rule Syntax and Usage
- Lab 4: Advanced Rule Options
- Lab 5: OpenAppID
- Lab 6: Tuning Snort
Prerequisite Knowledge
Cisco recommends that you have the following knowledge and skills before taking this course:
- Basic understanding of networking and network protocols
- Basic knowledge of Linux command-line utilities
- Basic knowledge of text editing utilities commonly found in Linux
- Basic knowledge of network security concepts
- Basic knowledge of a Snort-based IDS/IPS system
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