What you'll learn

Organizations need clear visibility into network threats, but many struggle to confidently deploy, tune, and monitor intrusion detection systems (IDS). In this course, Intrusion Detection with Snort Walkthrough, you’ll learn to install, configure, and customize Snort 3 to detect and analyze malicious traffic and query the data inside of Splunk. First, you’ll explore how to set up Snort 3, verify interface detection, and generate malicious traffic to observe alerts in real time. Next, you’ll create and refine custom Snort rules to detect common attacks like ICMP scans, HTTP requests, and SQL injections. Finally, you’ll run and detect a simulated attack using Metasploit and forward Snort alerts to Splunk for centralized monitoring. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills to confidently deploy and manage Snort 3 as part of a modern network defense strategy.