10 Open Source Security Breach Prevention and Detection Tools | Linux Today

10 Open Source Security Breach Prevention and Detection Tools

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 5, 2016

Open source security breach prevention and detection tools can play a major role in keeping your organization safe in the battle against hackers, cybercriminals and foreign governments. Here are 10 of the best open source security intrusion prevention/detection systems (IPDS), firewalls, network monitoring platforms, anti-virus platforms and wireless monitoring applications.

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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