Intrusion Detection With Mondrian and Snort

This book proposes to show the added value of OLAPtechniques for IDS event analysis. It will discussthe currently available tools that are used togetherwith the IDS Snort to build a strong security system.This will help the reader to understand what an IDSis and what tools can help in analyzing IDS events.The book will also cover the topic of OLAP and thefeatures that are important when developing an OLAPbased analysis system. Finally the book will showthe reader how to build a cube with open sourcetools. The steps taken to install Snort are discussedincluding the interconnection with programs such asMySQL for the collection of alerts . It explains someof the most interesting possibilities for analyzingdata and evaluates the most popular open sourcereporting tools for Snort.To conclude it will show the result of building acube with Mondrian and the possibilities foranalyzing the data with a web-based front end usingJPivot.