IBM Gets Behind Snort, Expands Anomaly Detection | Linux Today

IBM Gets Behind Snort, Expands Anomaly Detection

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Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 27, 2012

Since its debut in 1998, the open-source Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) known as Snort has become a popular platform for security signatures to protect enterprise IT assets. Today, IBM announced support for Snort signatures as part of an expanded security threat analytics capability that is designed to alert organizations to suspicious outbound traffic from infected “zombie” computers.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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