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Source: Dark Reading - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Open source IDS/IPS celebrates its tenth year with an all-new platform in the works, a new release candidate, and plans for a commercial a virtual appliance. The 10-year-old Snort IDS/IPS technology on which many of today's intrusion prevention products are based is poised for a face-lift.
Sourcefire, which develops the open source Snort tool, today officially announced that later this year it will deliver a commercial, Snort-based virtual appliance, and that it is working with Intel on the next-generation open source Snort engine. The company today also began offering a new release candidate of Snort, 2.8.5, and new features for version 2.8.4.
Snort has been gradually moving away from being just an IDS/IPS. Snort creator and Sourcefire CTO Martin Roesch last year first hinted at what Snort 3.0 might look like, revealing the next generation of the software would serve as a sort of a network traffic analysis platform on which other security functions could run.
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