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 ...

Network security is a hot topic these days, and intrusion detection systems are playing a greater role in network security. Refeeq Ur Rehman's book Intrusion Detection with SNORT, Apache, MySQL, PHP, ...

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 ...

In our tests of five leading network intrusion-detection systems and the popular open source Snort, performance was spotty during baseline testing and degraded by as much as 50% on some products when ...

Sourcefire’s open source IDS engine, Snort, has long been the gold standard of signature-based intrusion detection systems. Snort’s commercial sibling, Sourcefire 3D, takes Snort a step further by ...

Security administration plays a vital role in network management tasks. The Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are primarily designed to protect the availability, confidentiality and integrity of ...

A variety of intrusion detection systems (IDS) are on the market, ranging from enterprise-level, managed network monitoring solutions to simple on-the-host logging systems. There is also a distinction ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems. Intrusion detection systems ...