As I will be having a lot more hands on with Snort once I assume my new role at work in a couple of weeks, I decided I needed to beef up my library, so I picked up Jay Beale’s Snort Toolkit book off of Amazon.

It starts out explaining what IDS/IPS are and then jumps into Snort 2.6 covering everything from installation to advanced deployment and rules. The entire kitchen sink.

I’ll post a full review of the book once I read it cover to cover.

Family

I will have my family in town for most of next week, which should be relatively fun. They’re definitely going to get a major tour of the area.

CISSP

I had to delay my CISSP exam until the end of July due to an unscheduled trip that came up last week. On the upside I get to cram some more before I drive up to Northern Virginia and take it.