What is Snort?
It is an open-source, free and lightweight network intrusion detection system (NIDS) software for Linux and Windows to detect emerging threats.
Snort is a tool in the Network Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Snort is an open source tool with 1.8K GitHub stars and 439 GitHub forks. Hereās a link to Snort's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Snort?
Companies
Developers
33 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Snort.
Snort's Features
- Intrusion Agent
- IPSx
- IPS
- NGIPS
- IPS detection and blocking
Snort Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Snort?
Ossec
It is a free, open-source host-based intrusion detection system. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response.
Splunk
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OpenSSL
It is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-purpose cryptography library.
Let's Encrypt
It is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).
Ensighten
Ensighten is a comprehensive website security company, offering next generation compliance, enforcement and client-side protection against data loss, ad injection and intrusion.
