Sourcefire this week is expected to announce add-on software called Intrusion Agent for its intrusion-detection system freeware Snort. The add-on will let the freeware version of Snort work with an ...

To learn more about keeping our network from being compromised, we subscribed to a security mailing list. We have read about the Snort intrusion-detection system. Can we run it on a Windows system and ...

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 a powerful open source intrusion detection system (IDS). What surprises me is how many security people have never touched it to learn more about how IDS works -- or how easy it is to evade ...

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 ...

Sourcefire is selling 5.32 million shares of common stock and expects to raise around $71.8 million, the company said in a statement. Morgan Stanley is the sole book-running manager for the Sourcefire ...