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 # Description
 
-An example of `snort++` (https://www.snort.org/snort3) network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (ID/IPS) deployed on an endpoint apache host.
+An example of `snort++` (https://www.snort.org/snort3) network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS) deployed on an endpoint `apache` host.
 
-In this setup the nfqueue (https://home.regit.org/netfilter-en/using-nfqueue-and-libnetfilter_queue/) iptables target is used to enable the intrusion prevention capability of snort, and the prometheus (https://prometheus.io/) time-series database is used for monitoring of snort alerts.
+In this setup the `nfqueue` (https://home.regit.org/netfilter-en/using-nfqueue-and-libnetfilter_queue/) `iptables` target is used to enable the intrusion prevention capability of `snort`, and the `prometheus` (https://prometheus.io/) time-series database is used for monitoring of `snort` alerts.
 
-The setup combines vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com) with jupyter (http://jupyter.org/) in order to
+The setup combines `vagrant` (https://www.vagrantup.com) with `jupyter` (http://jupyter.org/) in order to
 achieve a "reproducible", executable documentation in the spirit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
 
 Please go to [vagrant-snort-nfqueue-tutorial-centos7.ipynb](ipynb/vagrant-snort-nfqueue-tutorial-centos7.ipynb)