Suricata

How To Configure Suricata as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Suricata as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial you will learn how to configure Suricata’s built-in Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) mode. When you enable IPS mode, Suricata can actively drop suspicious network traffic in addition to generating alerts. Once you know which signatures you would like to use in IPS mode, you’ll convert their default action to drop or reject traffic. With your signatures in place, you’ll learn how to send network traffic through Suricata using the netfilter NFQUEUE iptables target.

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Understanding Suricata Signatures — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

Understanding Suricata Signatures

In this tutorial you’ll learn how Suricata signatures are structured, and some important options that are commonly used in most rules. Once you are familiar with how to understand the structure and fields in a signature, you’ll be able to write your own signatures that you can combine with a firewall to alert you about most suspicious traffic to your servers, without needing to use other external rulesets.

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