Snort Features

Posted Date: 05-Apr-2010	Category: Computer & Technology
Author: Joseph A	Member Level: Gold	Points: 5

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Snort is a NIDS open source software, Network intrusion detection system. It can be optimized to perform as a network intrusion detection and prevention system software, released by sourceforge.

Before installing snort in the windows or linux based operating system environment some dependency packages to be isntalled like adob, banyard,, base etc.

Following are the important features of Snort

* Snort is an open source, freeware IDS/IPS tool

* Source code of snort can be modified

* mysql and mysql client are needed to create databses and other snort related databases and query retrieval

* IPV6 is integrated into latest snort versions

* List of ports for port scan is available in the snort reports

* Snort can detect threats like stealth port scans, SMB probes, CGI attacks, buffer overflows, NetBIOS queries and NMAP

* Alert file indicates any suspicious or malicious attacks

* Log file is created with tcp dump formats of incoming and outgoing data packets

* Snort can be compared to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-068

* Snort's Unified2 output defines the nature of output file

* Snort can be used to inspect HTTP traffic

* Shared object rules are available in Snort and can be used

* Snort supports target-based intrusion detection

Network Intrusion Detection Prevention System

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