Snort, the open source intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS), can be a fabulous tool to protect your network from attack – if it’s set up correctly. If it’s not, it can cause network ...

Whenever I think of snort-wheezing to whitetail deer, I think of my buddy Tony Peterson, who is a well-known outdoor writer and public-land whitetail hunting expert, not to mention a born skeptic. And ...

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 ...

A common question raised about open source is, “How can you make money from free software?” It’s a good question, but as Martin Roesch can attest, it does have a good answer. If you happen to work in ...