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Cisco Pushing Open-Source Snort and ClamAV Forward

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Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 8, 2016

Snort++ the next generation of the Snort project is currently in active development and will also one day become the base for Cisco Firepower IPS and next generation firewall technology as well.

In a video interview, Roesch discusses how the next generation of Snort is evolving and why open-source remains a core part of Cisco’s security efforts in 2016.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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