THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY October 1, 2003 Snort
________________ SPONSORED BY: CA Unicenter(R) infrastructure management software INFRASTRUCTURE SELF-MANAGEMENT Unicenter infrastructure management software from CA enables your infrastructure to manage itself, enabling IT managers to focus more on the business of business - and not the business of maintenance. Unicenter ensures that your IT is always in sync with your business, so you can be more responsive than ever to a constantly changing marketplace. http://WhatIs.com/r/0,,18899,00.htm?ca ________________ TODAY'S WORD: Snort See our complete definition with hyperlinks at http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci789029,00.html Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) created by Martin Roesch. Snort is a packet sniffer that monitors network traffic in real time, scrutinizing each packet closely to detect a dangerous payload or suspicious anomalies. Snort is based on libpcap (for library packet capture), a tool that is widely used in TCP/IP traffic sniffers and analyzers. Through protocol analysis and content searching and matching, Snort detects attack methods, including denial of service, buffer overflow, CGI attacks, stealth port scans, and SMB probes. When suspicious behavior is detected, Snort sends a real-time alert to syslog, a separate 'alerts' file, or to a pop-up window. NSS Group, a European network security testing organization, tested Snort along with intrusion detection system (IDS) products from 15 major vendors including Cisco, Computer Associates, and Symantec. According to NSS, Snort, which was the sole open source freeware product tested, clearly out-performed the proprietary products. ______________________ RELATED TERMS: packet http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212736,00.html sniffer http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci213016,00.html payload http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci214475,00.html SMB http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci214214,00.html probe http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci212831,00.html ______________________ SELECTED LINKS: Snort.org provides more information and downloads. http://www.snort.org/ The Software Engineering Institute provides "Writing rules and understanding alerts for Snort." http://www.cert.org/security-improvement/implementations/i042.14.html SearchSecurity.com profiles the creator of Snort in their ongoing series, "Who's Who in InfoSec." http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci911035,00.html ______________________ TODAY'S TECH NEWS: MASSACHUSETTS BUDGET CZAR BULLISH ON OPEN-SOURCE Massachusetts' top budget official says he wants the state to become a leader in government IT practices. To demonstrate its commitment, the Bay State will give top consideration to open-source software and standards whenever possible, said Eric Kriss, the state's secretary for administration and finance. http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci930055,00.html IBM EXPANDS VIRTUAL HOSTING SERVICE TO ISERIES IBM has expanded to the iSeries a service it launched more than a year ago on the mainframe -- one that lets users tap into virtual computing capacity on demand over the Internet. http://search400.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid3_gci929908,00.html CISCO REPORTS RAMP-UP IN IP TELEPHONY CERTS Cisco says the number of IP telephony certifications it issued during the first half of 2003 was unprecedented -- during that period, the company issued a number equal to the entirety of what it had issued before. An analyst calls the certification "very marketable." http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid7_gci930015,00.html >> Catch up on all the latest IT news at http://searchtechtarget.techtarget.com/ _____________________ QUIZ #43 | Ruling Your IT Universe You don't need to be a control freak to do well on this week's quiz -- but it'll help! We think you'll be amazed at how many IT management terms you know. >> Take the quiz http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci921917,00.html ______________________ SECRET WORD-OF-THE-DAY | What is IT? The moon is one of these, and so's the earth. In a communications context, it's used for such diverse purposes as weather forecasting, television broadcast, amateur radio communications, Internet communications, and GPS. >> See if you're right! http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci212939,00.html ______________________ HOROSCOPES FOR GEEKS | October (NEW!) Find out what the planets have in store for you this month. http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci919205,00.html _____________________ FREE WHITE PAPER | On-demand computing On-demand computing is an enterprise IT model in which computing resources are made available to the user as needed. In the next few years, industry insiders expect on-demand computing to become the most popular enterprise computing model. >> Click here for white paper http://www3.ca.com/Files/WhitePapers/next_generation_ondemand_wp.pdf >> Browse all our white papers http://whatis.techtarget.com/guideToWhitePaper/0,294410,sid9,00.html ______________________________ RECENT ADDITIONS AND UPDATES [1] beaming http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci929540,00.html [2] WiMAX http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci929334,00.html [3] horizontal scalability http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci929011,00.html [4] Words-to-Go glossary: outsourcing http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci928601,00.html [5] ICT http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci928405,00.html ____________________________________________________________________ ::::::::::::::::::: WHATIS.COM CONTACTS ::::::::::::::::::: LOWELL THING, Founder and Consulting Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MARGARET ROUSE, Site Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IVY WIGMORE, Assistant Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ::::::::::::::::::::: ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER :::::::::::::::::::::: This newsletter is published by TechTarget, the most targeted IT media. http://www.techtarget.com Copyright 2003 TechTarget. 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