Snort User Webcast Series

February 4, 2015 | OpenAppId Detection Webinar

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May 1, 2014 | OpenAppId Community Webinar
Costas Kleopa, OpenAppId Development Team lead discusses the news going on with Snort's new OpenAppId preprocessor.

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March 13, 2014 | Open Source Community Webinar
Joel Esler, Open Source Manager discusses the news going on with Snort, ClamAV, Snort.org and the Cisco integration.

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July 20, 2011 | Snort Tuning 101
Nick Moore, Cisco Security Engineer discusses the basics of Snort tuning. Going over variables, basic rule tuning, and other goodies.

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May 26, 2011 | Using Multiconfig
John Gay, Cisco Educational Instructor and Snort Courseware developer goes over the configuration and usage of the "Multiconfiguration" feature of Snort. This presentation does not have a recorded Webinar.

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April 13, 2011 | Introduction to Snort: Part 1
Nick Moore, Sourcefire Security Engineer discusses the setup of Snort 2.9.0.5 on Fedora Core 14. Lots of Q&A during the presentation and afterwards leads this to be a great first-watch installation guide for Snort.

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November 9, 2009 | Performance Tuning: Rules & Preprocessors
Steve Sturges, Snort development team manager, discusses guidelines for tuning Snort based on performance statistics from rule and preprocessor profiling and the perfmon preprocessor. This session is intended to help Snort administrators when tuning and troubleshooting performance issues. The discussion may also be useful to Snort rule writers for measuring the potential performance impact of their rules.

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July 24, 2009 | Pimp My Snort
Leon Ward and JJ Cummings discuss three open source tools that will help you customize your Snort Install.

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February 23, 2009 | Effective Problem Reporting: How to Get Your Problems Noticed and Fixed
In this session of the Snort-Users webinar series, Alex Kirk of the Sourcefire VRT discusses how to prepare a Snort rules-related bug report that will enable the VRT to help you solve the problem at hand.

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November 12, 2008 | Using the Host Attribute Table in Snort
Using Snort's Host Attribute Table. The session will include an overview of what you can do with it and why you might find it useful. It will also discuss how to build the attribute table file and describe the XML structures it uses. Additionally, this session will describe how you can write rules that take advantage of this feature to provide more robust detection capabilities.

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September 17, 2008 | Writing Effective Rules, Part II
n this session Matt Olney of the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) will present Performance Rules Creation: Rules Options and Techniques.

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June 4, 2008 | Writing Effective Rules, Part I
In this latest Snort Users Webinar, Matt Olney of the Sourcefire VRT discusses the VRT's methodology for writing effective Snort Rules and what you need to know about Snort to take on rule writing.

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February 27, 2008 | Intro to Snort
One-hour webcast wth Ed Mendez, Director of Instructional Design and Development, covering the basic steps necessary to install, configure and use Snort

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