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Part of the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series, this book starts with introduction to intrusion detection and covers the five basic areas of Snort: 1)Installation. 2)Managing rules. 3)Managing input and out plugins. 4)Using MySQL with Snort to keep data in a database. 5)Web based user interface (ACID and Snortsnarf) to analyze data generated by Snort. In addition, the book contains appendices to provide information to readers including packet headers, XML DTD and so on.