What is snort used for in cybersecurity?
snort is an open source network intrusion detection system (NIDS).Snort is a packet sniffer that monitors network traffic in real time ,scrutinizing each packet closely to detect a dangerous payload and suspicious malware. Snort is widely used in TCP/IP traffic sniffers and analyzers .It detects attack method including denial of service (dos) ,buffer overflow ,CGI.when suspicious behaviour is detected ,snort sends a real-time alert to sys log ,a separate ‘alert files’
Snort is a network-based intrusion detection and prevention system. It used to be a defacto standard when it comes IDS/IPS. It also used to be free and open source solution. But now it’s neither free nor a goto security solution. Snort was turned to a paid solution called “Sourcefire”, a much better and polished product, which later got acquired by Cisco. But IDSs are thing of past, mainly because their underlying technology relied heavily on signature-based detection. Now there are more sophisticated network, parameter and endpoint based solutions. SIEM being at the top.
