How To Secure pfsense with Snort: From Tuning Rules To Understanding CPU Performance
Channel: Lawrence Systems
Date: 2023-10-18

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Time Stamps
00:00 - How To Setup Snort on pfsense
00:37 - Install and basic setup
03:32 - Snort on WAN interface
04:47 - Creating Interfaces to Snort
06:24 - Examining Alerts and How They Are Triggered
09:36 - How Encryption Blinds Intrusion Detection
10:53 - Security Investigations and Tuning Rules
12:46 - Rule Suppression 
15:53 - Snort CPU Requirements and Performance
19:55 - Some final notes on processors and rules