Sourcefire Intrusion Detection Technology - Snort

Sourcefire produces one of the worlds most widely used intrusion detection technologies, Snort.

Threat environments have changed completely over the last couple of years. In the age of the castle we protected ourselves by putting walls around them, but whats the point of a wall around a castle when we have the age of the jet plane that can easily just drop bombs on the top of the castle anyway? In the same way the age of the firewall, which has been protecting peoples networks for so long, whats the point of that when we have 3G phones which then connect to networks, and allow us to drop software bombs, if you like, into any business at any time?

We have a simple IPS solution for simple requirements. People want to be able to block events happening on their network, thats Sourcefire IPS. When they want to consider the more important aspects of the assets they have, the vulnerabilities they have in their own business then, once we include Sourcefire IPS and our product called Realtime Network Awareness, with our Defense Center, which correlates that information together, then we have active contextual information, reducing the number of events they have, enabling them to deal with the situation a lot faster. When we consider that we can then integrate user information in, now we can see active security events against the users of the machines at that time, giving us the full contextual gamut that they require.

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