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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) today unveiled Suricata 1.0, an open-source IDS/IPS engine that will compete with the popular Snort tool. Available immediately for download under the ...
The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF), a group funded by the U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and several security vendors, this week released an open source engine built to detect ...
The two software vendors signed a license agreement to jointly develop the software using the Nmap Scripting Engine embedded within the Nmap network discovery tool. Under the terms of the agreement, ...