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Snort vs Sonicwall: What are the differences?
What is Snort? An open-source security software product that looks at network traffic in real time and logs packets to perform detailed analysis. It is an open-source, free and lightweight network intrusion detection system (NIDS) software for Linux and Windows to detect emerging threats.
What is Sonicwall? Next-Gen Firewalls & Cybersecurity Solutions. Award-winning firewalls and cybersecurity solutions. Protecting SMBs, enterprises and governments from advanced cyber attacks for three decades.
Snort and Sonicwall are primarily classified as "Network Monitoring" and "Security" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Snort are:
- Intrusion Agent
- IPSx
- IPS
On the other hand, Sonicwall provides the following key features:
- Next-generation cloud security for hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Protect data and connected devices across remote and distributed locations
- Secure Mobile Access delivers policy-enforced remote access to data centers, networks, SaaS applications and cloud resources
Snort is an open source tool with 829 GitHub stars and 257 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Snort's open source repository on GitHub.
