The 10-year-old Snort IDS/IPS technology on which many of today's intrusion prevention products are based is poised for a face-lift. Sourcefire, which develops the open source Snort tool, today ...

Network intrusion detection company Sourcefire faces a number of challenges but one of its biggest may be making a buck from an open source security project dubbed Snort. Sourcefire is expected to ...

Your home lab isn't just there for playing around with new operating systems, tools, and self-hosting services to reduce your reliance on the cloud. I mean, it's there for all of those things, but ...

Is Snort, the 12-year-old open-source intrusion detection and prevention system, dead? The Open Information Security Foundation, a nonprofit group funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) ...

I have found that most engineers have more monitoring on their transmission facilities than they do on their local network. Nonetheless, the engineering network has become critically important with ...

Need a simple-to-use yet highly flexible intrusion detection package? If so, look no further than Snort. This Linux utility might be just what you need for network traffic monitoring, and Jim McIntyre ...

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 ...

The creator of Snort, the open-source network-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), says the software is up for an overhaul. IDS has failed to impress the market, Martin Roesch told delegates at the ...