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 ...

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 ...

Having trouble finding malicious activity during Snort scans? Your Snort implementation may need a tune up. Joel Esler tells you how to do it using host attribute tables. The question I receive most ...

One indication that an idea's time has come is when two publications on the topic arrive at the same time. Based on the two titles reviewed here, it's apparent that Snort is going mainstream. These ...