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Suricata

According to Wikipedia, Suricata is an open source-based intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS). It was developed by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). A beta version was released in December 2009, with the first standard release following in July 2010.[3][4]

Contents

Features

  • Multi-threading
  • Automatic protocol detection
  • Gzip decompression
  • Independent HTP library
  • Standard input methods
  • Unified2 output
  • Flow variables
  • Fast IP matching
  • HTTP log module
  • JSON standard outputs
  • Windows binaries
  • Lua scripting[6]
  • Prelude output[7]
  • file matching, logging, extraction, md5 checksum calculation[7]
  • IP reputation
  • DNS logger
  • VXLAN support since 4.1.5

in a future release[5]

  • Global flow variables

Third-party tools

Third-party tools available for Snort are compatible with Suricata, like the following:

Free intrusion detection systems

See also

References

  1. ^ “Releases – OISF/suricata”. Retrieved 16 August 2021 â€“ via GitHub.
  2. ^ “Suricata license”.
  3. ^ “New Open Source Intrusion Detector Suricata Released”Slashdot. 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  4. ^ “Suricata Downloads”. Open Security Information Foundation. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  5. Jump up to:a b Jonkman, Matt (2009-12-31). “Suricata IDS Available for Download!”. Seclists.org. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  6. ^ “Suricata Features”. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  7. Jump up to:a b “Suricata All Features”. Retrieved 2012-10-06.

External links

The development of Suricata is a combined effort of OISF employees and contractors, developers who work for 3rd party companies and individuals who help out in their free time.