Cisco Announces Plan to Reinvent Snort 3 IPS | Linux Today

Cisco Announces Plan to Reinvent Snort 3 IPS

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 12, 2014

Back in 2009, Sourcefire, the lead commercial sponsor behind the widely deployed Snort open-source intrusion detection/prevention system (IDS/IPS), was working on building out its next-generation Snort 3.0 release. It’s a release that never happened—that is, until today.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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