Snort

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

2

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What Wikipedia says

Snort is a network intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) created in 1998 by Martin Roesch, founder and former CTO of Sourcefire. Snort is now developed by Cisco, which purchased Sourcefire in 2013. It is free and open-source software with a GNU General Public License version 2.

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