Southern Alberta Snort User Group

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The Southern Alberta Snort User Group is part of the ChekMate Technical Focus Group.

By coming together and sharing our experiences and ideas, we can all benefit.


Join the Southern Alberta Snort User Group by having your name added to the ChekMate Mailing List, notify Kirsten Hook at khook - at - chekmate.org

Next Meeting will be hosted in September.

Final date and meeting details to be presented at a later date.

Meeting Location
Axia NetMedia Corporation
3300, 450 1st Street S.W.
Calgary, AB T2P 5H1



Possible Future Meetings

  • Snort Pre-Processors, their use and effectiveness
  • How to write Snort signatures
  • Indepth Niksun NetDetector Presentation
  • SGUIL - Implementation and Walk Through
  • Snort-BASE Enhancements (Digging into the MySQL and RRD tables to Enhance your Snort-BASE implementation)
  • SnortSensor-LiveCD
  • SourceFire Guest Speakers
  • Rule Design
  • Centralizing Snort Administration
  • Wireless IDS
  • Intrusion Prevention
  • Non-IDS uses for Snort (explore it's capabilities)
  • Snort operation (files, modules, dependencies, preprocessors, etc)
  • Integrating Snort into an embedded platform
  • Making rpm, pkgs, deb's, ports, etc from a custom compiled Snort
  • Tcpdump Primer
  • Snort Inline
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