Optimize the performance of Snort 3 using multithreading

About this Learning Path

Who is this for?

This Learning Path is for software developers familiar with Snort who want to optimize performance by leveraging the benefits of multithreading.

What will you learn?

Upon completion of this learning path, you will be able to:

• Install Snort and dependencies.
• Configure Snort Lua files to enable multithreading.
• Use multithreading to process capture files and measure performance.

Prerequisites

Before starting, you will need the following:

• An Arm-based instance from a cloud provider, or an Arm server running Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04.
• A basic understanding of Snort’s operation and configuration.