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 ...

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 ...

To learn more about keeping our network from being compromised, we subscribed to a security mailing list. We have read about the Snort intrusion-detection system. Can we run it on a Windows system and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nokia plans to integrate Sourcefire’s intrusion-prevention software into its line of network security appliances by year’s end. Sourcefire, which is based on the open-source Snort software, scans the ...

If you don’t have a lot of budget at your disposal, these open-source intrusion detection tools are worth a look. As businesses grapple with the pandemic, millions of workers are no longer working in ...