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 ...

Is Snort, the 12-year-old open-source intrusion detection and prevention system, dead? The Open Information Security Foundation, a nonprofit group funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) ...

Sourcefire's acquisition (Techmeme discussion) of the ClamAV project -- a deal that includes trademarks and copyrights of the popular open-source anti-virus toolkit -- has raised eyebrows among ...

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 ...

I've spent years with the Snort intrusion detection system. It's often a love/hate relationship as I massage the rules in order to get to meaningful and actionable data. Often it comes down to parsing ...