I'm an IDS engineer by trade and I could go on for days about this topic. Yes, snort is great. No, it's not anywhere near enough by itself. That's why you take a varied approach. Snort is probably one of the best signature based IDSes available. The user community behind it is very strong and produces some great sigs, usually same day as the vulnerability is announced. But the downside is no protection against 0 day attacks. Therefore you have to have some behavioral systems in place as well. Problem with those is tuning out the false positives can be very difficult and time-consuming. Add a Honey pot/IPS with blocking capabilities like activescout to the mix and you're starting to get there. Add a SIM (security information management) product that can correlate data from all of your sensors and issue blocks to your firewalls and you're well on your way.
If you ever want to get that Dream job with Google, you'd better be pretty sharp on your Math skills.
Game Programming? You guessed it. Some of the most interesting programming jobs require a good deal of Math knowledge. MBAs make corporate executroids happy, but do you want to push paper, or create something?
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I'm an IDS engineer by trade and I could go on for days about this topic. Yes, snort is great. No, it's not anywhere near enough by itself. That's why you take a varied approach. Snort is probably one of the best signature based IDSes available. The user community behind it is very strong and produces some great sigs, usually same day as the vulnerability is announced. But the downside is no protection against 0 day attacks. Therefore you have to have some behavioral systems in place as well. Problem with those is tuning out the false positives can be very difficult and time-consuming. Add a Honey pot/IPS with blocking capabilities like activescout to the mix and you're starting to get there. Add a SIM (security information management) product that can correlate data from all of your sensors and issue blocks to your firewalls and you're well on your way.
If you ever want to get that Dream job with Google, you'd better be pretty sharp on your Math skills.
Game Programming? You guessed it. Some of the most interesting programming jobs require a good deal of Math knowledge. MBAs make corporate executroids happy, but do you want to push paper, or create something?