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Nt1310 Unit 3 Assignment Snort

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For the purpose of this assignment snort will be used as intrusion detections systems which is an open source IDS, snort has the ability to monitor traffics in real time and packet locking its also inspecting each packets as they enters into the network, Snort can be used as packet sniffer to analyse the network traffic in order to detect any bizarre looking packets or payloads which might have malicious data in it. Snort can also detect payloads attacks against the network or host system including but not limited to stealth port scan, and buffer overflows. 4.1 Snort rules: Snort has almost more than 3000 predefined set of rules that are free to download from the snort.org website, these rules are precise and can vary from a wide ranges of

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