IT-Director: Sourcefire--The Open Source Answer to Network Security | Linux Today

IT-Director: Sourcefire–The Open Source Answer to Network Security

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 5, 2004

“In the past couple of years, technologies such as intrusion
detection and protection systems have become mainstream tools in
the corporate security arsenal. But many feel less than satisfied
with the performance of some of these technologies. In particular,
the number of false positives–when a legitimate piece of
communication is flagged as being a possible security threat–is
proving to be expensive for organisations in terms of the amount of
time IT staff must spend dealing with what is actually legitimate
traffic…”

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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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