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 ...

So, I've looked on the internet, used search here, and I can't find this answer. I'm a windows admin, installing snort onto an ubuntu machine. I've got it installed and working, but can't figure out ...

Installing Snort on either of those distros (which are Linux, incidentally) is likely to be an awful lot simpler for you than getting it running on OpenBSD. Ok, I have no problem doing that. I just ...

Network-based intrusion-detection systems (IDS) are an integral component of a layered IT security strategy. As October is National Cyber Awareness Month, if your overall security system doesn’t ...

One indication that an idea's time has come is when two publications on the topic arrive at the same time. Based on the two titles reviewed here, it's apparent that Snort is going mainstream. These ...