SearchSecurity: Sourcefire’s Roesch Pledges Long, Open Source Life for Snort

“How much joy do you still get out of being a part of
Sourcefire today, versus when you first got started?
Roesch: I love Sourcefire. It’s the best job I’ve ever had. What’s
not to like? I’ve got lots of resources at my fingertips. I have
access to whatever computing horsepower I need. I work with a bunch
of really great people and I’ve learned tons. Plus ideas that
people would’ve dismissed a few years ago are taken very seriously
now and things like RNA [Real-time Network Awareness] are the
result. When I first brought up the idea [for RNA] to my own
engineering team, they told me it wouldn’t work. And we made it
work, and [today] it works really well. So I look forward to going
to work everyday when I get up…”

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