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    The document discusses installing and configuring the Snort intrusion detection system (IDS) to monitor network traffic and study the logs. It provides background on IDS and describes Snort's functionality in sniffing, logging, and detecting network intrusions based on user-defined rules. The steps outlined include downloading and configuring Snort, editing configuration files, starting Snort in console mode, and using Snort rules format to detect specific intrusions in the network traffic.

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    The document discusses installing and configuring the Snort intrusion detection system (IDS) to monitor network traffic and study the logs. It provides background on IDS and describes Snort's functionality in sniffing, logging, and detecting network intrusions based on user-defined rules. The steps outlined include downloading and configuring Snort, editing configuration files, starting Snort in console mode, and using Snort rules format to detect specific intrusions in the network traffic.

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    The document discusses installing and configuring the Snort intrusion detection system (IDS) to monitor network traffic and study the logs. It provides background on IDS and describes Snort's functionality in sniffing, logging, and detecting network intrusions based on user-defined rules. The steps outlined include downloading and configuring Snort, editing configuration files, starting Snort in console mode, and using Snort rules format to detect specific intrusions in the network traffic.

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    How To Use Snort in Kali

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    The document discusses installing and configuring the Snort intrusion detection system (IDS) to monitor network traffic and study the logs. It provides background on IDS and describes Snort's functionality in sniffing, logging, and detecting network intrusions based on user-defined rules. The steps outlined include downloading and configuring Snort, editing configuration files, starting Snort in console mode, and using Snort rules format to detect specific intrusions in the network traffic.

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    The key takeaways are about intrusion detection systems (IDS), network based IDS (NIDS), host based IDS (HIDS), and Snort as an open source NIDS.

    Snort can be configured in three main modes: sniffer, packet logger, and network intrusion detection.

    The steps to install Snort are: open the terminal, use sudo apt-get install snort

    EXPERIMENT NO.

    AIM: INSTALL IDS (E.G. SNORT) AND STUDY THE LOGS.

    THEORY:
    INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM: An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a device
    or software application that monitors network or system activities for malicious activities or
    policy violations and produces reports to a management station. IDS come in a variety of
    flavors and approach the goal of detecting suspicious traffic in different ways. There are
    network based (NIDS) and host based (HIDS) intrusion detection systems. NIDS is a
    network security system focusing on the attacks that come from the inside of the network
    (authorized users). When we classify the designing of the NIDS according to the system
    interactivity property, there are two types: on-line and off-line NIDS. On-line NIDS deals with
    the network in real time and it analyses the Ethernet packet and applies it on the some rules
    to decide if it is an attack or not. Off-line NIDS deals with a stored data and pass it on a
    some process to decide if it is an attack or not.[1] Some systems may attempt to stop an
    intrusion attempt but this is neither required nor expected of a monitoring system. Intrusion
    detection and prevention systems (IDPS) are primarily focused on identifying possible
    incidents, logging information about them, and reporting attempts. In addition, organizations
    use IDPSes for other purposes, such as identifying problems with security policies,
    documenting existing threats and deterring individuals from violating security policies.
    IDPSes have become a necessary addition to the security infrastructure of nearly every
    organization.[2]
    IDPSes typically record information related to observed events, notify security administrators
    of important observed events and produce reports. Many IDPSes can also respond to a
    detected threat by attempting to prevent it from succeeding. They use several response
    techniques, which involve the IDPS stopping the attack itself, changing the security
    environment (e.g. reconfiguring a firewall) or changing the attack's content.[2]

    SNORT: Snort is a free and open source network intrusion prevention system (NIPS)
    and network intrusion detection system (NIDS)[4]created by Martin Roesch in 1998.[5] Snort is
    now developed by Sourcefire, of which Roesch is the founder and CTO,[6] and which has
    been owned by Cisco since 2013.[7][8]

    In 2009, Snort entered InfoWorld's Open Source Hall of Fame as one of the "greatest
    [pieces of] open source software of all time".

    Snort can be configured in three main modes: sniffer, packet logger, and network intrusion
    detection.] In sniffer mode, the program will read network packets and display them on the
    console. In packet logger mode, the program will log packets to the disk. In intrusion
    detection mode, the program will monitor network traffic and analyze it against a rule set
    defined by the user. The program will then perform a specific action based on what has been
    identified.

    INSTALLATION OF SNORT:
    Step 1: Open the terminal.
    Step 2: Type sudo apt-get install snort

    CONFIGURING SNORT IDS:


    Step 1: Open the snort.conf file.

    Step 2: Edit as follows

    Step 3: Open the local.rules file.

    Step 4: Edit using the suitable header and body.

    Step 5: Connect to FTP.

    Step 6: Start snort in console mode.

    Now when someone tries to access google, the snort IDS will detect the intrusion.

    SNORT RULES FORMAT:

    header (body;)

    Example:
    alert udp 10.10.10.10 any -> 10.10.10.11 53 (msg:We got the DNS traffic; content:|07|
    foundit|03|com; nocase; reference, url:someintel.google.com;classtype: attempted_recon;
    sid:5000000; rev:1;)

    Conclusion: Thus we have studied about installing snort and studied the logs.

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