Snort Primer: A FAQ Based Introduction To The Most Popular Open-Source IDS/IPS Program

Snort Primer is a beginner level book on Snort, and is aimed at Snort users as well as developers. The book takes a question/answer approach in order to make the reader more acquainted with Snort. Many of these questions are often seen in snort user and developers mailing lists. In addition to guiding the reader through the Snort internals, many examples and use cases are discussed as well. The latest version of Snort, namely 2.9.7 is used whenever code is discussed or experiments and results are shown.