Snort
Columbia
Founded 1998
Snort is the foremost Open Source Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) in the world. It uses a series of rules to define malicious network activity, find matching packets, and generate alerts, and can be deployed inline to stop these packets.
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Last Updated: March 13, 2026
Current Valuation
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Funding Summary
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Total reported funding
OSS News & Views
April 24, 2026
MDPI Computers: R-Snort: A Performance-Optimized Multi-Agent NIDS Architecture for SOHO and Edge-of-Things Networks Using Snort 3 on Raspberry Pi 5
Media Mention
July 23, 2013
Network Computing: Cisco Buys IPS Specialist Sourcefire for $2.7 Billion
Key People
Martin Roesch
Founder and Creator
Joel Esler
Snort Team / Open Source Community
Yaser Mansour
Snort 3 Setup Guides Contributor
Core OSS Projects
Business Information
Industries
Software
Technologies
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
Network Traffic Analysis
Packet Logging
Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
Sectors
EnterpriseDevelopers
Licenses
GPL-2.0-only
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