How to set up your own Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) with Snort - Part 5

The last part of my guide on setting up Snort and related tools in a home lab / network environment!

Now that Snort is running and analyzing your home network traffic, we need a way to make sense of the alert logs that Snort writes out.

Part 5 - Installing Barnyard2 and MySQL

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How to set up your own Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) with Snort - Part 4

Installing and using PulledPork to keep your Snort rules up to date with updates from the community.

Part 4 - Installing PulledPork

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How to set up your own Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) with Snort - Part 3

In the third part of this series on setting up a Network IDS, we are finally installing the brain of this setup - Snort!

Part 3 - Installing Snort

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How to set up your own Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) with Snort - Part 2

Setting up port mirroring on your home router, so a copy of the network packet can be forwarded to your Snort host for capture, inspection, processing and so on.

Part 2 - Mirroring Network Traffic

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How to set up your own Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) with Snort - Part 1

So over the new year holidays, I finally had some time dedicated to setting up my own home security lab.

When deciding what to do first, I saw the ability to monitor my home network traffic was an obvious starting point for a quick win.

Or so I thought :)

Turns out there was a lot more to do than I expected.

Setting up a home NIDS (Snort) - Part 1 - Overview