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 ...

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 ...

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 ...