Welcome to the next module for this course where we'll automate
our rule update process using the cron tool.
In the previous module,
we evaluated the effects of enabling our rule sources and
updating our rule sets using suricata‑update.
Now that we've selected our desired rule sets,
we need to enable a process to automatically update our rules.
Let's go to the overview and see what we'll cover in this module.
In this module,
we're going to discuss the cron tool and how we can use it to schedule tasks.
We're going to see how cron enables us to automate tasks on a Linux server.
Once we understand the basics of its use,
we'll use cron to sequence our updates on our Suricata server.
In our demo,
we'll make this configuration change on our server
and test the automation process.
Once we set up automatic updates,
we'll wrap up the course with the course summary and next steps.
If you're ready to get started, we'll begin with an overview of the cron tool.