Designed to fill the gap left by expensive, heavy-duty network intrusion detection systems, Snort is a free, cross-platform packet sniffer, logger, and intrusion detector for monitoring smaller TCP/IP ...

Sourcefire this week is expected to announce add-on software called Intrusion Agent for its intrusion-detection system freeware Snort. The add-on will let the freeware version of Snort work with an ...

A new vulnerability in Snort, an open source intrusion-detection system (IDS), enables hackers to inject hostile code into exposed systems. Sourcefire, the company behind the Snort package, said ...

Long-time intrusion-detection system watchers will inevitably want to know: what about Snort? Long-time intrusion-detection system watchers will inevitably want to know: what about Snort? The popular ...

Properly placed within the topology of the network, Snort gives you the best bang for the buck in an IDS. There is a package out there that combines Snort, Dans Guardian, Squid, and a couple of others ...

False positives and data management are two of the most frustrating aspects of using an intrusion-detection system, but a new version of Snort, the freely available IDS that we use, has greatly ...

Open source and information security applications go together like peanut butter and jelly. The transparency provided by open source in infosec applications -- what they monitor and how they work -- ...

The U.S. government may have stopped Sourcefire Inc.'s plans to merge with Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., but Sourcefire still has big plans for the expansion of its open-source Snort-based ...

Snort is a powerful open source intrusion detection system (IDS). What surprises me is how many security people have never touched it to learn more about how IDS works -- or how easy it is to evade ...

Now-a-days cloud computing has become very popular since it reduces infrastructure cost. Hence, the level of security measures also has to be increased. Intrusions Detection Systems (IDSs) are ...

Teja Technologies Inc. has added a new Intrusion Detection System (IDS) application to Teja NP software platform for the Intel network processor (NPU) product line. The Teja NP IDS application is ...

Over the past 20+ years, Snort has become the de facto standard by which all network intrusion detection systems are measured. The release of Snort 3 in January 2021 represents a significant upgrade ...