An Optimal Use of Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS)

Intrusion detection systems are used for monitoring and invalidating malicious or violent activities over a network. These activities can be in the form of policies misuse or access violation. To prevent these activities and attacks, system must be aware of the policies and their limitations. In this study we have selected an IDPS called snort which is very famous now a days and can be used freely as it is an open source project. In this work we have studied implementation, configuration, installation and related issues arise during this process. Implementation is done primarily on local machine over a LAN and afterwards will be implemented over a high speed large network. The study will identify how to improve the performance of snort and tune up the performance for optimal use.