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Seattle Snort Users Group 7/11/06 7:00 PM @SSCC room tba
Posted by jimmythegeek on June 29, 2006 18:09:32
ANNOUNCING:
The seventh meeting of Seattle Snort Users Group
(SeaSnUG)
Seventh Meeting: July 11, 2006 at 7:00 PM
Location: South Seattle Community College, room TBA
Attractions:
*nix trivia and schwag raffle
Presentation
Presentation Topic: Snort Rule Clinic
James Affeld (me) will present a clinic on writing Snort rules for detection and performance, with a heavy reliance on the 80-20 principle (where 80% of the value is in 20% of the features).
This will not be a dry recitation of what's already in the excellent Snort manual, nor an exposition of Snort arcana. My intent will be to cover the most generally useful features, the areas easiest to make mistakes, and some things that should be in the manual but aren't. In short, what I think you need to write good Snort rules for the typical IT shop (if there is such a thing). I'll also try to cover in sufficient detail that you'll be able to parse rules written by other people and understand what they are looking for.
To anchor the rule lore in brain space, we'll also take a poorly constructed rule and improve it until it's efficient and accurate. Time permitting, we'll deconstruct/interpret one of the hairiest rules in the Snort distribution.
This presentation will not cover the new rule options available with the release of Snort 2.6. That may be covered in a future presentation.
About the speaker (me): James Affeld has been using Snort for about 5 years. He obtained the GIAC GCIA (GIAC Certified Intusion Analyst) Gold certification in August 2003, and taught the Local Mentor edition of the SANS IDS class in the summer of 2005 (broadly comparable to being a TA for an upper division class).
The room we usually use will be closed for building renovation. I'll send a follow-up with the new location.
RSVP at http://www.snort.org/registrations/rsvp.html
SeaSnUG mailing list
Regional Map and Directions: http://southseattle.edu/ campus/map.htm
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Campus Map: http://southseattle.edu/campus /campmap.htm
Contact: jamesaffeld@yahoo.com |
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