Snort
Open Source Intrusion Prevention System
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
June 5, 2026
Inderscience Blog: Inderscience news: Research pick: Protecting the Internet of Things from botnets is nothing to sniff at - "A Snort-based secure edge router for smart home"
Announcement
June 2, 2026
MC Press Online: Sourcefire Protects Customers Against Apache Killer Exploit - MC Press Online
OSS News & Views
May 11, 2026
Stack Overflow Blog: When the Sensor Starts Thinking: SnortML, Agentic AI, and the Evolving Architecture of Intrusion Detection
Announcement
May 11, 2026
MC Press Online: Sourcefire Protects Customers Against Apache Killer Exploit - MC Press Online
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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
Category
Intrusion Detection System (IDS)Industries
Software
Technologies
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)Network Traffic AnalysisPacket Logging
Sectors
EnterpriseDevelopers
Licenses
GPL-2.0-only
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