Tutorial series

Securing Your Network with Suricata

Securing Your Network with Suricata

Introduction

Suricata is a flexible, high performance Network Security Monitoring (NSM) tool that can detect and block attacks against your network.

This series will explore how to install Suricata on various operating systems, how to understand and write your own signatures to detect malicious or unknown traffic, and how to configure Suricata in both Intrusion Detection (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention (IPS) modes.

Once you have Suricata configured and running on your network, you’ll learn how to build your own Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool on top of the data that Suricata collects.

Tutorials in series

Tutorial

How To Install Suricata on Ubuntu 20.04

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How To Install Suricata on Debian 11

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How To Install Suricata on Rocky Linux 8

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How To Install Suricata on CentOS 8 Stream

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Understanding Suricata Signatures

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

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How To Configure Suricata as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) on Debian 11

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How To Configure Suricata as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) on Rocky Linux 8

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How To Build A SIEM with Suricata and Elastic Stack on Ubuntu 20.04

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