Command-and-control traffic is one of the more useful places to apply network detection, because it often leaves repeatable patterns even when the payload is encrypted. Suricata is well suited to this work when you treat it as part of a wider detection stack rather than a single answer. For UK SMEs, the practical goal is…
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