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    Suricata…Next gen Snort???

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    • J
      jmcentire
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      Anyone taken a look at Suricata?  Supposedly the "next generation" snort IDS/IPS:

      http://openinfosecfoundation.org/index.php/downloads
      http://openinfosecfoundation.org/index.php/faqs

      Just curious if anyone has researched or tried it out.

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        cmb
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        haven't tried it. Sure ticked off Marty Roesch (Snort founder) it appears, though his basic complaint looks to be legit - it's nothing more than a government-funded rewrite of Snort that doesn't perform nearly as well.

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          Cry Havok
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          +1 to cmb's comments.  Give it a while and it may be worth looking at, but currently there's nothing it can do that Snort hasn't done for some time.  Given a choice between a well tested platform, and a new one, for any security critical one I'd go with the well tested one…

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