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 2.2K GitHub stars and 504 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
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Splunk
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Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
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