Nessus, Snort and Ethereal Power Tools
The first three books in my Open Source Security series covered Nessus,
Snort, and Ethereal.The authors and I worked hard to make these books useful
to complete beginners, enterprise-scaled users, and even programmers who
were looking to enhance these tools. Giving programmers the capability to add
components to each tool was one focus of several. For example, I dissected a
preprocessor in the Snort 2.0 and 2.1 books and explained how you might
build another.To do that, I had to learn Snort’s inner workings by reading
much of the code. My material helped you learn how to work on a preprocessor,
but you still needed to do much...
