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Intrusion Detection System with Suricata
Building a practical IDS/IPS lab with Suricata, custom signatures, event analysis, and Splunk-assisted investigation.
Project overview
This project explores how a network intrusion detection system observes traffic, matches signatures, and turns suspicious activity into useful alerts. Suricata provides the detection engine while Splunk helps organize and investigate the resulting events.
What the project covers
- IDS and IPS operating principles
- Suricata configuration and deployment practices
- Signature-based detection and custom rule creation
- Alert validation and false-positive reduction
- Event ingestion and investigation with Splunk
The goal is not only to generate alerts, but to understand why each alert fired and how it contributes to a repeatable threat-detection workflow.
Detailed screenshots, configuration examples, and detection scenarios can be added here as the lab documentation is finalized.