Suricata (software)

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Suricata
Developer(s) Open Information Security Foundation
Stable release 2.0.8 / May 6, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-05-06)
Preview release 2.1beta4 / May 8, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-05-08)
Written in C
Operating system FreeBSD, Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Type
License GNU General Public License[1]
Website suricata-ids.org

Suricata is an open source-based intrusion detection system (IDS). It was developed by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). A beta version was released in December 2009, with the first standard release following in July 2010.[2][3]

Features

[4]

  • Multi-threading
  • Automatic protocol detection
  • Gzip decompression
  • Independent HTP library
  • Standard input methods
  • Unified2 output
  • Flow variables
  • Fast IP matching
  • HTTP log module
  • Graphics card acceleration
  • Windows binaries
  • Lua scripting[5]
  • Prelude output[6]
  • file matching, logging, extraction, md5 checksum calculation[6]
  • IP reputation
  • DNS logger
in a future release
[4]
  • Global flow variables

Third-party tools

Third-party tools available for Snort are compatible with Suricata, like the following:

Free intrusion detection systems

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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