Sweet Security alternatives
Looking for an alternative tool to replace Sweet Security? During the review of Sweet Security we looked at other open source tools. Based on their category, tags, and text, these are the ones that have the best match.
Alternatives (by score)
Suricata
Introduction
Suricata is a somewhat younger NIDS, though has a rapid development cycle. It can work with Snort rulesets, yet also has optimized rulesets for usage with Suricata itself. For example, this set is known as Emerging Threats and fully optimized.
Project details
Suricata is written in C, Lua.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 50 contributors
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Information gathering
- Intrusion detection
- Network analysis
- Threat discovery
Zeek (Bro)
Introduction
Zeek helps to perform security monitoring by looking into the network's activity. It can find suspicious data streams. Based on the data, it alert, react, and integrate with other tools.
Project details
Zeek is written in C++.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 50 contributors
- + More than 2000 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Well-known tool
Typical usage
- Security monitoring
DejaVu
Introduction
DejaVu is an open source deception framework which can be used to deploy and administer decoys or canaries across a network infrastructure. Defenders can use deception as a technique to learn quickly about possible attackers on the network and take actions.
Project details
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
- - No releases on GitHub available
Typical usage
- Security monitoring
- Threat discovery
Scirius
Introduction
Scirius is a web application to do Suricata ruleset management. There is both a community version as paid version available.Project details
Scirius is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Network security monitoring
Snort
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).
Project details
Snort is written in C.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + Supported by a large company
- + Well-known tool
Typical usage
- Security monitoring
Maltrail
Introduction
Maltrail monitors for traffic on the network that might indicate system compromise or other bad behavior. It is great for intrusion detection and monitoring.Project details
Maltrail is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 10 contributors
- + More than 3000 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Intrusion detection
- Network analysis
- Security monitoring
CHIRON ELK
Introduction
CHIRON is a tool to provide network analytics based on the ELK stack. It is combined with Machine Learning threat detection using the Aktaion framework. Typical usage of the tool is home use and get the visibility of home internet devices. By leveraging the Aktaion framework, it helps with detection threats like ransomware, phishing, or other malicious traffic.
Project details
CHIRON ELK is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
- - No releases on GitHub available
Typical usage
- Network analysis
- Network security monitoring
- Network traffic analysis
- Threat discovery
IVRE
Introduction
IVRE is a framework to perform reconnaissance for network traffic. It leverages other tools to pull in the data and show it in the web interface.Project details
IVRE is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 10 contributors
- + More than 1000 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Digital forensics
- Information gathering
- Intrusion detection
- Network analysis
Moloch
Introduction
Moloch comes with a web interface that allows for easy browsing of pcap data (packet capture). It can also search in the data or export it. Besides pcap, the JSON format is supported, so data can be easily consumed in other tools (like Wireshark).
Project details
Moloch is written in C, Node.js.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 25 contributors
- + More than 3000 GitHub stars
- + Many releases available
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Supported by a large company
Typical usage
- Network security monitoring
- Security monitoring
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