Is open source Snort dead? The Debate has just begun!

Ellen Messmer's article in Network World yesterday provides an update on Snort 3.0 and a rival product, the OISF's first open source release Suricata 1.0.  Many see it as superior to Snort since it inspects network packets using a multi-threading technology to inspect more than one packet at a time.  The following are quotes from Ellen's article.


"The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) is a nonprofit group funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) to come up with next-generation open source IDS/IPS.  The OISF was founded about a year and a half ago with $1 million in funding from a DHS cybersecurity research program, according to Matt Jonkman, president of OISF. He says OISF was founded to form an open source alternative and replacement to Snort, which he says is now considered dead since the research on what is supposed to be the next-generation version of Snort, Snort 3.0, has stalled.  "Snort is not conducive to IPv6 nor to multi-threading," Jonkman says......"


Snort's in a very HOT debate. http://bit.ly/ceIggx