Hi all, I am currently a senior at my university and working on my senior project; I am also interested in entering the networking and information security field within computer science. As such, I thought building a very basic host based IDS would be a great project as it would be challenging as well as give me valuable knowledge/working experience for when I enter the professional world.
The biggest problem I am running into is finding sufficient resources in which I can do research and begin building my project. Most sources I have come into are very basic overviews of what IDS's are and how they work in rudimentary terms. I was wondering if anybody had any particular ideas of where I could find more in-depth technical information. I do have access to some databases through my university's library system, but I was wondering if anybody knew of any other resources that provide in-depth coverage of IDS's.
Would going through the documentation of some open source IDS software be a good place to start? I have quickly glanced over SNORT, but found the documentation rather lackluster, although I could have overlooked the technical portion of their documents.
Another question I had would be recommendation of which OS to build the software to run on, Windows or Linux? I feel like Linux might be the better choice over Windows.
Any insight or tips for resources would be greatly appreciated, thanks for taking the time to read the ramblings of a college student!
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