Snort open source IDS turns 10

Jun 01, 2009, 22:04 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)

"SNORT claims 3.7 million downloads (a few of those might be mine) and over the last ten years it has continued to evolve with new IDS/IPS features.

"Currently Snort is gearing up its 2.8.5 release which will add new VLAN policy functionality, which will provide new network control granularity."

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