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The intrusion detection systems are gaining wide importance and experiencing high demand owing to the growing number of cyber threats and attacks. Manufacturers are continuously focusing on R&D to develop new and effective intrusion detection systems in order to analyse the inbound and outbound of data on networks. Quick and effective detection of known anomalies is one of the key qualities of IDS.

Snort

Snort is the world’s first and foremost open source intrusion detection and prevention system. Snort’s open source network IDS and IPS comes with the capability to perform real time traffic analysis and packet logging. This is done on Internet protocol networks, Snort performs 3 main functions- protocol analysis, content searching and matching.

Snort is not limited to operating systems, fingerprinting attempts, semantic URL attacks, buffer overflows, server message block probes, and stealth port scans but can also detect probes and attacks. Snort can be configured in three main modes: 1. sniffer, 2. packet logger, and 3. network intrusion detection.

Fortinet

Fortinet offers its services to the world’s largest enterprises, service providers and government organizations. The customers are offered seamless protection across the attacking surface. Fortinet Security Fabric architecture is the only software that delivers security without compromise and addresses the crucial security challenges.

The company holds a high rank in shipping the most security appliances worldwide. Recently, fortinet security fabric announced the delivery of end to end security for 5G ecosystems.

Solarwinds

Solarwinds is a top player in the list of IDS providers in the US. The company holds an experience of 20 years in the field and is committed towards making the lives of technology professionals simpler.

Solarwinds offers a wide range of products categorized into IT security, database management, networks management, systems management, IT services management, application management and much more.

OSSEC

OSSEC is a scalable and multi platform offering a powerful Host-based Intrusion Detection System. OSSEC runs on most of the operating systems such as Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, MacOS, Solaris and Windows.

In February 2021, OSSEC announced the availability of its Atomic OSSEC security platform with the help of an easy software service (SaaS) delivery model.

Suricata

Suricata company has a wide base of customers using its fast and robust network threat detection engine. The Suricata engine is highly advanced as it has the capability of real time intrusion detection (IDS), inline intrusion prevention (IPS), network security monitoring (NSM) and offline pcap processing. Suricata’s fast paced development drives focuses on security, usability and efficiency.