Suricata (software)

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Suricata
Developer(s) Open Information Security Foundation
Stable release
7.0.10 [1] / 25 March 2025;15 days ago (25 March 2025) [2]
Repository
Written in C, Rust
Operating system FreeBSD, Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Type
License GNU General Public License [3]
Website suricata.io OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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. [4] [5] [6]

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Features

Like other IDSes, Suricata provides threat detection capabilities. Like a firewall, Suricata provides traffic filtering and monitoring, but Suricata provides network administrators with the ability to write and enforce detection rules. [5]

Suricata is able to detect common attack vectors such as port scanning, denial-of-service, pass-the-hash, and brute-force attacks. [5]

Typically, a major update of Suricata is released every 3 months. [5]

Ruleset

Suricata uses a ruleset to perform detection and threat analysis. [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Release 7.0.10". 25 March 2025. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
  2. ↑ "Releases - OISF/suricata" – via GitHub.
  3. ↑ "Suricata license".
  4. ↑ "New Open Source Intrusion Detector Suricata Released". Slashdot. 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Rice-Jones, Joe (March 26, 2025). "5 reasons to use Suricata or Snort for your home lab firewall". XDA Developers .
  6. ↑ "Suricata Downloads". Open Security Information Foundation. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
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