Tag: Network Intrusion Detection
Snort for Network IDS
Posted on Jun.23, 2009, under Computer and PC Tips No Comments
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 [...]
