Thaidoweb 2008

What is Tripwire?
Tripwire is a form intrusion detection system (IDS) that helps you keep tabs on the integrity of the files on your computer. Quite simply it will help identify files or modifications made to your system in the event someone compromised your system.
How does Tripwire work?
Tripwire works on a pretty easy to understand concept. Basically, when you install Tripwire on your linux box you tell it to scan your system and create a database of checksums and information. Once [...]

What is Snort?
Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) that can audit network traffic in real-time. Snort is a packet sniffer, a packet logger, and a network intrusion detection system.
Snort as I mentioned before is an open source software which means it can be configured and complied on most operating systems. Snort has been ported over to Microsoft Windows operating systems also, but it’s bread and butter is back on the UNIX/Linux side of the house. Most [...]