1. Nicholas Novello, Shayne Gradwell, Nikolas Todd
Snort Network Monitoring System
Snort Force One
Nicholas Novello, Shayne Gradwell, Nikolas Todd

2. Agenda Introduction Project Background Budget Challenges
What is snort?
ProxMox
Scripts
Budget
Challenges
Lessons Learned
Accomplishments
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Questions

3. Project Background What is snort? How does snort work?
Provides real time monitoring for suspicious network traffic, to log, alert, drop packets from potential attacks or matching rules.
How does snort work?
3 Main operation modes:
Sniffer
Packet logger
NIDS – Network Intrusions Detection System

4. Project Background: ProxMox
What is ProxMox
Hypervisor
Virtualized software
Debian based.
Create virtual containers, or machines using a web Interface

5. Project Background: Scripts
Sets a base line for comparison.
Displays number of all protocols captured.
Essential for statistical analysis to monitor trends, and detect potential variances.
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6. Budget Item Hours Rate Cost Shayne Gradwell 79.1 $75 $5,932.5
Nikolas Todd
76.5
$5,737.5
Nicholas Novello
83.4
$6,255
Item
Initial Budget
Actual Budget
Hardware
$3,040.65
$3,319.89
Operating Costs/Wages
$16,650.00
$17,925
Total
$19,690.65
$21,244.89
Variance $

7. Challenges Time management Hardware issues. Configuration issues:
virtualized environment,
Snort logging/NIDS flags,
Networking.

8. Lessons Learned Time management is key.
Good Information can be hard to find
Journaling is important, both for creating an accurate manual and for budgeting.
Things are not as easy as you might expect them to be, so plan accordingly.

9. Accomplishments Secured Virtualized environment - ProxMox
Packet logging - Snort box (CentOS container)
Perl script to log metrics – Automated
Developed adept problem solving skills
Strengthened our friendship over the past 13 weeks

10. Conclusion
As a team we hope to utilize and apply all that we have learned these past few months to our career’s and projects in the future.
We have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge and experience while looking forward to a career in the IT industry.

11. Acknowledgments & References
We would like to thank:
Timothy Williams
Colin Chamberlain
Dylan Saunders
Jason Fisher
Images all public domain obtained from:

12. References Cont.
[1] CISCO IT Last accesed 04/12/2014
[2] Snort Last accesed 9/4/2015
[3] Proxmox Last accesed 9/4/2015
[4] Snort manual Last accesed 9/4/2015
[5] CentOS Last accesed 9/4/2015
[6] CentOS Wiki Last accesed 9/4/2015
[7] Vimeo Last accesed 9/4/2015
[8] SANS Last accesed 9/4/2015
[9] Snort Cookbook Last accesed 9/4/2015
[10] Tamato USB Last accesed 9/4/2015
[11] The Geek Stuff Last accesed 9/4/2015
[12] Proxmox wikia Last accesed 9/4/2015
General Ideas Last accesed 04/12/2014
General Reference Timothy Williams 26/12/2014
[13] William Parker, Last accesed 9/4/2015
[14] CentOs.org, Last accesed 9/4/2015
[15] manpagez, Last accesed 9/4/2015
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13. Questions