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 ...

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 ...

Snort, the open-source intrusion-detection software, is vulnerable to hackers, its developers revealed this week. Snort's popularity has grown as many businesses have been tempted away from expensive ...

Emerging Threats Pro debuted Monday with a rival intrusion detection and prevention signature technology to vendor Sourcefire, which shepherds open source Snort and its threat-detection signature base ...

Snort is often referred to as a lightweight intrusion detection system. Snort is labeled lightweight because it is designed primarily for small network segments. Snort is very flexible due to its rule ...

Having trouble finding malicious activity during Snort scans? Your Snort implementation may need a tune up. Joel Esler tells you how to do it using host attribute tables. The question I receive most ...