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Improving Snort performance with Barnyard

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 23, 2007

[ Thanks to E.
Stridee
for this link. ]

“As with any IDS, performance and accuracy are key.
Improvements in accuracy result in reduced false positives and more
focus on actual threats. Performance improvements result in
processing those threats and receiving alerts on them in a timely
manner. In this tip, we’re not going to focus on configuring Snort
to be more accurate, but rather tuning Snort to work faster and in
a more efficient manner with a third-party application,
Barnyard.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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