Suricata
Suricata is an extremely popular open source network security solution that can be set up to operate as an IDS, IPS, and network security monitoring (NSM) engine. It is designed to be incredibly fast, efficient, and highly accurate in detecting intrusions and malicious activities on computer networks. Suricata can perform real-time traffic analysis, allowing it to detect and respond to security threats as they occur. Suricata can be used to protect networks from a very wide range of threats, including malware, exploits, D/DoS attacks, and much more.
Suricata offers features that pretty much cover every IDS and IPS topic we just discussed. We’ll give you a nudge in terms of getting it set up. If you decide to choose it as your network traffic defense solution, you will want to keep the following areas where Suricata excels in mind:
- Signature-based detection
- Protocol analysis
- File extraction
- SSL/TLS inspection
- Support for a wide range of network...
