Need a simple-to-use yet highly flexible intrusion detection package? If so, look no further than Snort. This Linux utility might be just what you need for network traffic monitoring, and Jim McIntyre ...

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 ...

Snort is often referred to as a lightweight intrusion detection system. Snort is labeled lightweight because it is designed primarily for small network segments. Snort is very flexible due to its rule ...

In a column about syslog [see “syslog Configuration” in the December 2001 issue of LJ] I mentioned “stealth logging”--by running your central log server without an IP address, you can hide your ...

To learn more about keeping our network from being compromised, we subscribed to a security mailing list. We have read about the Snort intrusion-detection system. Can we run it on a Windows system and ...

The “market” for system- and network-level technologies has become (or at least needs to become) more comprehensible to many business managers in a world where we understand that cloud and managed and ...