Author : Sameer

With the evolution of internet, possibilities and opportunities are limitless, unfortunately, so too are the risks and chances of malicious intrusions. Due to the limitation of the firewall and intrusion detection system in the information security domain, intrusion prevention system (IPS) and intrusion detection system (IDS) appeared. It is a new generation information security technology following the firewall and other intrusion detection techniques. It is also a secure product that protects the network and system in real time from attacking, and now becomes a hotspot of research in network security domain An IDS can be a piece of installed software or a physical appliance that monitors network traffic in order to detect unwanted activity and events such as illegal and malicious traffic, traffic that violates security policy, and traffic that violates acceptable use policies. . Snort is a famous intrusion detection system in the field of open source software. It is widely used in the intrusion prevention and detection domain in the world. In this paper, we explain how intelligently implements Snort as intrusion and detection system on the small scale environment the intrusion detection system.

Keywords: IPS ,IDS, firewall, domain ,intrusion, hotspot, prevention, Detection.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.6, No.6 (Dec-2016)