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CheckPoint Acquires Snort

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the done-sniffing-each-other dept.

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."

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  1. More info from Checkpoint by Parid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Here is some more info from checkpoint including a FAQ.
    http://www.checkpoint.com/sourcefire/

    I use both firewall-1 and sourcefire currently. The one thing I hope they /don't/ do is merge the two support teams. Sourcefire's support is decent, but checkpoints is down right awful.