Internet Network Monitoring Using Snort Integrated with Email (Case Study of Student Boarding School KH Mas Mansur)

The need for demand of Internet number ought to be balanced with increased security on computer networks. This situation requires an administrator to always monitor the running network and response quickly in dealing with the interferences or attacks that may occur. Students Boarding School KH Mas Mansur has a local system which functions are to make student management easier, such as 1) Students’ monthly and occupancy payment system; 2). Students meal attendance system; 3) New student’s registration system and the test for new students. Students Boarding School KH Mas Mansur has 372 active students and it raises each year. The network in students boarding school KH Mas Mansur has been finely manageable, but there are several things that is necessitated to be added to the development of the network security, that is security network monitoring in real-time against interference or attack. From the problems above it can be concluded that the current running network is vulnerable to attacks, and when there is an attack on the network, administrator does not know what is surely occurred, so it takes time to overcome them. This study aims to monitor the internet network security in real-time using Snort and provide notification if there is an interference or attack on the network in accordance with the rules that are already existed in the Snort. The test of the system will carry out the attacks on existing networks such as ICMP test from another compute