Sourcefire has an enviable position in the security world. Its open-source software is widely used for intrusion detection and prevention, and its hardware appliances brought in revenues of around ...

Is Snort, the 12-year-old open-source intrusion detection and prevention system, dead? The Open Information Security Foundation, a nonprofit group funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) ...

Cisco Sourcefire recently announced that their Snort open source IDS/IPS 2.9.7 will now support free application visibility and control, called OpenAppID. It will be fully integrated into the current ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Researchers from Demarc, a Carpinteria, Calif.-based security vendor, discovered the vulnerability May 17 and released a patch May 31. Researchers found that while connecting to Web ports via telnet, ...

Many companies incorporate Snort intrusion detection and prevention capabilities into their network-security products. Sourcefire founder and chief technology officer Martin Roesch owns Snort's ...