Snort open source IDS turns 10

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Jun 2, 2009

“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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Sean Michael Kerner

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