Re: Snort Tool Evaluation

["M Shirk" <shirkdog_linux () hotmail com>]

I too own the Snort 2.0 book, and I would ask Brian Caswell if there are 
plans for a 2.2 or a 2.3 book?

There are differences between 2.0 and 2.1, but not enough to get the 2.1 
book. However, I could be enticed to get the 2.3 with all of the updated 
rule options

When I had a question about newer options in Snort 2.1 I was told to:
RTFM at http://www.snort.org

I was delighted to see that the snort manual had the latest rule options.

The information at http://www.snort.org is enough to get a sensor up and 
running in no time
(and of course if you can not follow Patrick Harpers guides, then you should 
consider a new career in basket weaving).

Shirkdog

> From: Dirk Geschke <Dirk_Geschke () genua de>
> To: Ty Bodell <tebodell () gmail com>
> CC: Jo <g01j2027 () campus ru ac za>, snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort Tool Evaluation
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:06:38 +0200
>
> Hi Ty,
>
> > Checkout the book "Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools".  It's
> > an Oreilly book and it goes over a good amount of the tools designed
> > for snort.  From preprocessors to Web interfaces and Consoles, what
> > works with High Bandwidth deployments, etc.  I don't believe it covers
> > OpenAanval though.  You can extract the pro's and cons from there.
>
> did you read this book? I just did this and it is by far the uggliest
> book I have seen either by O'Reilly or covering snort.
>
> If you read the documentation which comes with snort you will get
> better informations than this book will give you.
>
> If you are looking for a good book then take
>
> Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection, Second Edition ISBN 1-931836-04-3
> by Brian Caswell and Jay Beale
>
> (Ok, I didn't read this book but the first edition covering snort-2.0
> and this book was quite useful. So I expect the second edition will be 
> too.)
>
> Best regards
>
> Dirk
>
> PS: There are more books on snort available but I read this two books.
> So I can't say anything to the other ones. They might be good or not but
> the O'Reilly book is definitively not useful.
>
>
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