Suricata (software)

Suricata
Developer(s) Open Information Security Foundation
Stable release
4.0.5 / July 18, 2018 (2018-07-18)
Preview release
4.1beta1 / March 23, 2018 (2018-03-23)
Written in C
Operating system FreeBSD, Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Type
License GNU General Public License[1]
Website suricata-ids.org

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.[2][3]

Features

[4]

  • Multi-threading
  • Automatic protocol detection
  • Gzip decompression
  • Independent HTP library
  • Standard input methods
  • Unified2 output
  • Flow variables
  • Fast IP matching
  • HTTP log module
  • Graphics card acceleration
  • Windows binaries
  • Lua scripting[5]
  • Prelude output[6]
  • file matching, logging, extraction, md5 checksum calculation[6]
  • IP reputation
  • DNS logger
in a future release
[4]
  • Global flow variables

Third-party tools

Third-party tools available for Snort are compatible with Suricata, like the following:

  • Snorby
  • BASE
  • Sguil (free)
  • Aanval (commercial)
  • Telesoft CERNE Open IDS Platform (commercial)

Free intrusion detection systems

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Suricata license".
  2. ↑ "New Open Source Intrusion Detector Suricata Released". Slashdot. 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  3. ↑ "Suricata Downloads". Open Security Information Foundation. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  4. 1 2 Jonkman, Matt (2009-12-31). "Suricata IDS Available for Download!". Seclists.org. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  5. ↑ "Suricata Features". Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  6. 1 2 "Suricata All Features". Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  • Open Information Security Foundation
  • "Suricata". Freecode.
  • Suricata website
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