Erratick mentioned EasyIDS in a recent thread and so I thought I'd take a look. <BR><BR>Being only a junior network type and a non-Linux guy to boot, the concept of a Live CD install is appealing.

Is Snort, the 12-year-old open-source intrusion detection and prevention system, dead? The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF), a nonprofit group funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security ...

Snort is a powerful open source intrusion detection system (IDS). What surprises me is how many security people have never touched it to learn more about how IDS works -- or how easy it is to evade ...

Your home lab isn't just there for playing around with new operating systems, tools, and self-hosting services to reduce your reliance on the cloud. I mean, it's there for all of those things, but ...

Excuse the maybe idiotic question but... what good is Snort for? The GF is doing a security course and they talk about it. I get what it does and how it works, but... why wouldn't you just drop ...

Designed to fill the gap left by expensive, heavy-duty network intrusion detection systems, Snort is a free, cross-platform packet sniffer, logger, and intrusion detector for monitoring smaller TCP/IP ...