Virgil Security vs Snort: What are the differences?

What is Virgil Security? We make every developer into an applied cryptologist. Virgil consists of an open-source encryption library, which implements CMS and ECIES(including RSA schema), a Key Management API, and a cloud-based Key Management Service.

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.

Virgil Security and Snort can be categorized as "Security" tools.

Some of the features offered by Virgil Security are:

• End-to-end encryption
• Passwordless authentication
• Data verification

On the other hand, Snort provides the following key features:

• Intrusion Agent
• IPSx
• IPS

Virgil Security and Snort are both open source tools. It seems that Snort with 696 GitHub stars and 218 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Virgil Security with 138 GitHub stars and 12 GitHub forks.