Snort

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Tool and Usage

Project details

License
GPLv2
Programming language
C
Author
Marty Roesch
Latest release
2.9.11.1
Latest release date

Project health

67
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Introduction

Besides intrusion detection, Snort has the capabilities to prevent attacks. By taking a particular action based on traffic patterns, it can become an intrusion prevention system (IPS).

Background information

Snort 3.0 was introduced in 2014 and is the first multi-threaded version. The tooling being single-threaded was a downside compared with similar tools.

Usage and audience

Snort is commonly used for security monitoring. Target users for this tool are system administrators.

Features

  • Customization and additions are possible
  • Extendable with custom tests and plugins

Tool review and remarks

The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:

Strengths

  • + Supported by a large company
  • + Well-known tool

Author and Maintainers

Snort is under development by Marty Roesch and maintained by Cisco.

Installation

Supported operating systems

Snort is known to work on FreeBSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.

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Categories

This tool is categorized as a intrusion prevention system software and network intrusion detection tool.