Suricata (software)
Developer(s) | Open Information Security Foundation |
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Stable release | 6.0.4
/ November 18, 2021[1] |
Repository | |
Written in | C, Rust |
Operating system | FreeBSD, Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows |
Type |
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License | GNU General Public License[2] |
Website | suricata-ids |
Suricata is an open source-based intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS). 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.[3][4]
Features[]
- Multi-threading
- Automatic protocol detection
- Gzip decompression
- Independent HTP library
- Standard input methods
- Unified2 output
- Flow variables
- Fast IP matching
- HTTP log module
- JSON standard outputs
- Windows binaries
- Lua scripting[6]
- Prelude output[7]
- file matching, logging, extraction, md5 checksum calculation[7]
- IP reputation
- DNS logger
- VXLAN support since 4.1.5
- in a future release
- [5]
- Global flow variables
Third-party tools[]
Third-party tools available for Snort are compatible with Suricata, like the following:
Free intrusion detection systems[]
- OSSEC HIDS
- Prelude Hybrid IDS
- Sagan
- Snort
- Zeek NIDS
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Releases - OISF/suricata". Retrieved 18 November 2021 – via GitHub.
- ^ "Suricata license".
- ^ "New Open Source Intrusion Detector Suricata Released". Slashdot. 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ^ "Suricata Downloads". Open Security Information Foundation. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ^ a b Jonkman, Matt (2009-12-31). "Suricata IDS Available for Download!". Seclists.org. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ^ "Suricata Features". Retrieved 2012-10-06.
- ^ a b "Suricata All Features". Retrieved 2012-10-06.
External links[]
Categories:
- Computer security software
- Free security software
- Free network-related software
- Intrusion detection systems
- Linux security software
- Unix security-related software