Certified Snort Professional

How It Works

  1. 1. Select Certification & Register
  2. 2. Receive Online e-Learning Access (LMS)
  3. 3. Take exam online anywhere, anytime
  4. 4. Get certified & Increase Employability

Test Details

  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • No. of questions: 50
  • Maximum marks: 50, Passing marks: 25 (50%).
  • There is NO negative marking in this module.
  • Online exam.

Benefits of Certification


$49.00 /-
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Vskills certification for Snort Professional assesses the candidate as per the company’s need for network security and assessment. The certification tests the candidates on various areas like installing and running Snort, building IDS, Plug-ins, logging, alerts, log analysis, rules, signatures, preprocessing Snortsnarf and other usage of Snort.

Why should one take this certification?

This certification is intended for professionals and graduates wanting to excel in their chosen areas. It is also well suited for those who are already working and would like to take certification for further career progression.

Earning Vskills Snort Professional Certification can help candidate differentiate in today's competitive job market, broaden their employment opportunities by displaying their advanced skills, and result in higher earning potential. 

Who will benefit from taking this certification?

Job seekers looking to find employment in networking, security or IT departments of various companies, students generally wanting to improve their skill set and make their CV stronger and existing employees looking for a better role can prove their employers the value of their skills through this certification.

Snort Professional Table of Content

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Snort Professional Interview Questions

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Companies that hire Vskills Snort Professional

Snort Professionals are in great demand. Companies specializing in network security or network management are constantly hiring skilled Snort Professionals. Various public and private companies also need Snort Professionals for their networking, security or IT departments.

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TABLE OF CONTENT

 

Installation and Optimization

  • Introduction    
  • Installing Snort from Source 
  • Installing Snort 
  • Upgrading Snort 
  • Monitoring Multiple Network Interfaces
  • Invisibly Tapping a Hub
  • Invisibly Sniffing Between Two Network Points
  • Invisibly Sniffing  MB Ethernet
  • Sniffing Gigabit Ethernet
  • Tapping a Wireless Network
  • Positioning Your IDS Sensors
  • Capturing and Viewing Packets
  • Logging Packets That Snort Captures
  • Running Snort to Detect Intrusions
  • Reading a Saved Capture File
  • Running Snort as a Linux Daemon
  • Running Snort as a Windows Service
  • Capturing Without Putting the Interface into Promiscuous Mode
  • Reloading Snort Settings
  • Debugging Snort Rules
  • Building a Distributed IDS 
  • Logging, Alerts, and Output Plug-ins
  • Introduction
  • Logging to a File Quickly
  • Logging Only Alerts
  • Logging to a CSV File
  • Logging to a Specific File
  • Logging to Multiple Locations
  • Logging in Binary
  • Viewing Traffic While Logging
  • Logging Application Data
  • Logging to the Windows Event Viewer
  • Logging Alerts to a Database
  • Installing and Configuring MySQL
  • Configuring MySQL for Snort
  • Using PostgreSQL with Snort and ACID
  • Logging in PCAP Format (TCPDump)
  • Logging to Email
  • Logging to a Pager or Cell Phone
  • Optimizing Logging
  • Reading Unified Logged Data
  • Generating Real-Time Alerts
  • Ignoring Some Alerts
  • Logging to System Logfiles
  • Fast Logging
  • Logging to a Unix Socket
  • Not Logging
  • Prioritizing Alerts
  • Capturing Traffic from a Specific TCP Session
  • Killing a Specific Session

Rules and Signatures

  •   Introduction
  •   How to Build Rules
  •   Keeping the Rules Up to Date
  •   Basic Rules You Shouldn't Leave Home Without
  •   Dynamic Rules
  •   Detecting Binary Content
  •   Detecting Malware
  •   Detecting Viruses
  •   Detecting IM
  •   Detecting PP
  •   Detecting IDS Evasion
  •   Countermeasures from Rules
  •   Testing Rules
  •   Optimizing Rules
  •   Blocking Attacks in Real Time
  •   Suppressing Rules
  •   Thresholding Alerts
  •   Excluding from Logging
  •   Carrying Out Statistical Analysis

 Preprocessing

  •  Introduction
  •  Detecting Stateless Attacks and Stream Reassembly
  •  Detecting Fragmentation Attacks and Fragment Reassembly with Frag
  •  Detecting and Normalizing HTTP Traffic
  •  Decoding Application Traffic
  •  Detecting Port Scans and Talkative Hosts
  •  Getting Performance Metrics
  •  Experimental Preprocessors
  •  Writing Your Own Preprocessor

 Administrative Tools

  •  Introduction
  •  Managing Snort Sensors
  •  Installing and Configuring IDScenter
  •  Installing and Configuring SnortCenter
  •  Installing and Configuring Snortsnarf
  •  Running Snortsnarf Automatically
  •  Installing and Configuring ACID
  •  Securing ACID
  •  Installing and Configuring Swatch
  •  Installing and Configuring Barnyard
  •  Administering Snort with IDS Policy Manager
  •  Integrating Snort with Webmin
  •  Administering Snort with HenWen
  •  Newbies Playing with Snort Using EagleX

Log Analysis

  •  Introduction
  •  Generating Statistical Output from Snort Logs
  •  Generating Statistical Output from Snort Databases
  •  Performing Real-Time Data Analysis
  •  Generating Text-Based Log Analysis
  •  Creating HTML Log Analysis Output
  •  Tools for Testing Signatures
  •  Analyzing and Graphing Logs
  •  Analyzing Sniffed (Pcap) Traffic
  •  Writing Output Plug-ins

Other Uses

  •  Introduction
  •  Monitoring Network Performance
  •  Logging Application Traffic
  •  Recognizing HTTP Traffic on Unusual Ports
  •  Creating a Reactive IDS
  •  Monitoring a Network Using Policy-Based IDS
  •  Port Knocking
  •  Obfuscating IP Addresses
  •  Passive OS Fingerprinting
  •  Working with Honeypots and Honeynets
  •  Performing Forensics Using Snort
  •  Snort and Investigations
  •  Snort as Legal Evidence in the US
  •  Snort as Evidence in the UK
  •  Snort as a Virus Detection Tool
  •  Staying Legal

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