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Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth ... [More] port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rule based language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, and a modular detection engine. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alert mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient. [Less]

Suricata is an open source Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS) engine. Suricata is developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. The engine is multi-threaded, has native IPv6 support, file extraction capabilities and many more features. It's capable of ... [More] loading existing Snort rules and signatures and supports many frontends through Barnyard2. [Less]