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Michael Rash, Security Researcher



Snort-2.1 Book Published

Snort-2.1 Book Published Syngress Publishing has published the book Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection, Second Edition, and I contributed "Chapter 12; Active Response". This chapter explores the concept and implications of configuring IDS software to automatically respond to attacks in real time. A PDF version of this chapter can be downloaded here. The book has received positive reviews (including one by Richard Bejtlich of taosecurity.com) on amazon.com. Both psad and fwsnort are discussed within this chapter.