4. The Reference Intrusion Model

With Part I's theory and deployment issues behind us, we can turn to the products that collect full content, session, statistical, and alert data, along with tools that analyze packets and strain detection software. All of the tools discussed in Part II are open source and available at no cost on the Internet. All of them have been tested on FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE, although most if not all will work on other UNIX-like operating systems (Linux, Solaris, and so on). With only a few exceptions, all of the tools are available as ports and packages for FreeBSD, ensuring simple installation and maintenance.

To provide a consistent set of data for these tools to manipulate, in this chapter I present a reference intrusion ...

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