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Snort To Go Virtual

Open source IDS/IPS celebrates its tenth year with an all-new platform in the works, a new release candidate, and plans for a commercial virtual appliance

May 28, 2009 | 05:33 PM

By Kelly Jackson Higgins

DarkReading

"The ten-year-old Snort IDS/IPS technology on which many of today's intrusion prevention products are based is poised for a facelift.

Sourcefire, which develops the open source Snort tool, today officially announced that later this year it will deliver a commercial, Snort-based virtual appliance, and that it is working with Intel on the next-generation open-source Snort engine. The company today also began offering a new release candidate of Snort, 2.8.5 and new features for version 2.8.4.

Snort has gradually been moving away from being just an IDS/IPS. Snort creator and Sourcefire CTO Martin Roesch last year first hinted at what Snort 3.0 might look like, revealing that the next generation of the software would serve as a sort of a network traffic analysis platform on which other security functions could run."

More at darkreading - http://www.darkreading.com/security/intrus...cleID=217700715

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