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Your Complete Guide to Cisco Enterprise IDS Management

This book presents a combination of intrusion detection systems (IDS) and security theory, Cisco security models, and detailed information regarding specific Cisco-based IDS solutions. Cisco Security Professional's Guide to Secure Intrusion Detection Systems also serves as a guide for security administrators studying for the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection Systems Exam (CSIDS 9E0-100).

• Review Intrusion Detection Systems
  Find coverage of the basic threats and attack types, as well as an overview of the various types of intrusion detection.

• Learn About Cisco Intrusion Detection
  Explore the nuts and bolts behind a Cisco-based IDS system, covering both Cisco's "Active Defense" and "Defense in Depth"
  methodologies.

• Install Sensor Appliances
  Install the Cisco IDS appliances on your network and learn about password recovery.

• Install the Cisco Secure Policy Manager (CSPM)
  Review the Cisco IDS management, install CSPM, and learn about the Web-based management tool set that handles the Cisco sensor.

• Configure the Sensor Appliance
  Configure the sensor appliance, SSH, and event logging. Learn how to restore defaults and update your signature files.

• Configure the IDSM Sensor
  Explore the installation, configuration, and management of the IDSM sensor when installed in the Cisco 6500 series switch chassis.

• Master IDS Signatures and Alarms
  Review the use of alarms and Cisco signatures and configure signature parameters.

• Configure Cisco Blocking
  Protect the network by blocking threats to your network security.

• Capture Network Traffic
  Configure the switch to provide the mirrored traffic that the IDS sensor needs to watch over the network.

• Review Cisco Firewall/IDS IOS
  Learn how to configure the IDS signatures and find out the limitations of the IOS-based version of IDS.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Cisco Intrusion Detection

Chapter 2: Installing Sensor Appliances

Chapter 3: Cisco IDS Management

Chapter 4: Configuring the Sensor Appliance

Chapter 5: Configuring the IDSM Sensor

Chapter 6: IDS Signatures and Alarms

Chapter 7: Configuring Cisco Blocking

Chapter 8: Capturing Network Traffic

Chapter 9: Cisco Enterprise IDS Management

C. Tate Baumrucker (CISSP, CCNP, Sun Enterprise Engineer, MCSE) is a Senior Consultant with Callisma. He is responsible for leading engineering teams in the design and implementation of complex and highly available systems infrastructures and networks. Tate is industry recognized as a subject matter expert in security and LAN/WAN support systems such as HTTP, SMTP, DNS, and DHCP.

James D. Burton (CISSP, CCNA, MCSE) is a Colorado Springs-based Systems Security Engineer for Northrop Grumman Mission Systems. He currently works at the Joint National Integration Center performing information assurance functions. James has over eight years of security experience having started his career as a Terminal Area Security Officer with the United States Marine Corps.

Scott Dentler (CISSP, CCSE, CCSA, MCSE, CCNA) is an IT consultant who has served with companies such as Sprint and H&R Block, giving him exposure to large enterprise networks and corporate environments. He is currently providing systems support for a campus network at a Medical Center with national affiliations. Scott is also a contributing author for Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1-931836-74-4). Ido Dubrawsky (CCNA, SCSA) has been working as a UNIX/Network Administrator for over 10 years. He has experience with a variety of UNIX operating systems including Solaris, Linux, BSD, HP-UX, AIX, and Ultrix. He was previously a member of Cisco's Secure Consulting Service providing security posture assessments to Cisco customers and is currently a member of the SAFE architecture team.

Michael Sweeney (CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, MCSE) is the owner of the network consulting firm Packetattack.com. His specialties are network design,
network troubleshooting, wireless network design, security, and network analysis using NAI Sniffer and Airmagnet for wireless network analysis. Michael's
prior published works include Cisco Security Specialist's Guide to PIX Firewalls (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 1-931836-63-9).

Oct 29, 2003     Jen from Santa Fe, NM
Good investment!
This is a very good book with a lot of step by step procedures for configurin the IDSM sensor, working with alarms, blocking, capturing network traffic, etc. I have the PIX book from the same publisher and their Cisco line has been great.

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