Intrusion Detection with Snort

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Intrusion Detection with Snort

Security is a big issue for all networks in today?s enterprise environment. Hackers and intruders have made many successful attempts to bring down high-profile company networks and web services. Using intrusion detection methods, you can collect and use information from known types of attacks and find out if someone is trying to attack your network or particular hosts. Snort is an open source Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) which is available free of cost. NIDS is the type of Intrusion Detection System (IDS) that is used for scanning data flowing on the network. There is also host-based intrusion detection systems, which are installed on a particular host and detect attacks targeted to that host only. Although all intrusion detection methods are still new, Snort is ranked among the top quality systems available today.

 

 

 

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