Hello,
everyone, my name is Matt Glass, and welcome to my
course, Getting Started with Snort.
I'm an IT project manager at Leidos, working in Stuttgart, Germany.
Snort is an intrusion detection and prevention system first developed
in 1998 and continuously improve since then.
Their latest version is completely rewritten with
significantly more functionality.
In this course, we're starting from the beginning,
assuming limited to no previous interaction with Snort,
and we're going to build you up to being able to run it from the command
line, and leveraging plugins to expand its functionality.
Some of the major topics that we will cover include starting and running Snort,
obtaining and enabling community rules,
enabling and configuring additional plugins, and
exporting alerts to visualization tools.
By the end of this course,
you'll be able to configure Snort based on security goals, and
comfortably run it from the command line. Before beginning the course,
you should be familiar with basic computer networking concepts, and the
use of a Linux command line interface.
I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn Snort, with the
Getting Started with Snort course, at Pluralsight.