Snort is often referred to as a lightweight intrusion detection system. Snort is labeled lightweight because it is designed primarily for small network segments. Snort is very flexible due to its rule ...

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, ...

i'm setting up a dedicated snort box. i followed Patrick Harper's excellent documentation.<BR><BR>however, he doesn't go into how to set a dedicated IDS, with multiple interfaces.<BR><BR>while i haven ...

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 ...

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 ...

False positives and data management are two of the most frustrating aspects of using an intrusion-detection system, but a new version of Snort, the freely available IDS that we use, has greatly ...

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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 ...