12 Jan 2015
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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07 Jan 2015
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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05 Jan 2015
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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04 Jan 2015
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