CheckPoint Acquires Snort

bobdehnhardt writes "The Snort-announce list was burning with the news that CheckPoint has signed an agreement to acquire Sourcefire, the commercial arm of the Snort community. As part of the agreement, CheckPoint will "continue to develop and distribute Snort under the GPL, improve and document the program to stay on the cutting edge and expand the snort.org web site." Here is a message from Snort creator Marty Roesch."

Comments

You also need a benchmark of legit activity.

[khasim]

Everything happening on your network should be authorized by you. If you're worried about security, then you need to get some benchmarks of the legitimate traffic on your network so you can have the system watch for different patterns.

Re:no big deal

[Kevin Burtch]

Closed-source penetration testing software?
I sure won't be using that version... and I love nessus!