Sourcefire Inc. has updated its popular open source Snort IDS tool to plug security holes an attacker could exploit to cause a denial of service or launch malicious code. The vendor said in a its ...
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 ...
Intrusion detection is not for the faint at heart. But, if you are a network administrator chances are you're under increasing pressure to ensure that mission-critical systems are safe--in fact ...
Why Snort matters: Snort is a powerful open-source IDS/IPS used globally for real-time traffic analysis, packet logging, and blocking known threats. What you can do: By writing custom rules, you can ...