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Wasim Ahmed
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Wasim Ahmed

Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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Integrating a Suricata IDS/IPS

The security protection of the Proxmox VE firewall can be further enhanced by configuring an intrusion detection and prevention system such as Suricata. It is a high-performance IDS/IPS engine that is able to protect a virtual machine by rejecting traffic that may be possible intrusions. Currently, Snort and Suricata are two open source mainstream IDS/IPS available, although there are a few others. One of the primary advantages of Suricata is that it is multithreaded, whereas Snort is single-threaded. Suricata is under rapid deployment and has gained popularity in a short amount of time.

By default, Suricata is not installed on a Proxmox node. It needs to be manually installed and configured. As of Proxmox VE 5.0, Suricata can only be used to protect a virtual machine and not any Proxmox host nodes.

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Do not try to manually download the Suricata package from any other source other than the Proxmox repository and install it on the Proxmox node. It may break...

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Wasim Ahmed, born in Bangladesh and now a citizen of Canada, is a veteran of the IT world. He first came into close contact with computers in 1992 and never looked back. Wasim has a deep understanding of networks, virtualization, big data storage, and network security. By profession, Wasim is the CEO of a global IT support and cloud service provider based in Calgary, Alberta. He serves many companies and organizations through his company on a daily basis. Wasim's strength comes from his experience, which comes from learning and serving continually. Wasim strives to find the most effective solution at the most competitive price. He has built over 20 enterprise production virtual infrastructures using Proxmox and the Ceph storage system. Wasim and his team are notorious for not simply accepting a technology based on its description alone, but putting it through rigorous testing to check its validity. Any new technology that his company provides goes through months of continuous testing before it is accepted. Proxmox made the cut superbly.
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