General Discussion Will Snort on UTM get Intel Hyperscan support?

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Will Snort on UTM get Intel Hyperscan support?

harshw over 7 years ago

Intel has taken over the high performance PCRE/RegEx library Hyperscan and have released a Snort integration for it: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/hyperscan-and-snort-integration. According to Intel the Hyperscan integrated version performs 6x faster and consumes 5x less memory

Knowing that UTM 9 is still using Snort - would Sophos integrate Hyperscan at some point into this Snort version?

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0 darrellr over 7 years ago

I seriously doubt it.
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0 harshw over 7 years ago in reply to darrellr

What is interesting is that it is already present in the XG series - if you look at the IPS log you will see Hyperscan being enabled.

Are there performance comparisons between IPS on the XG and on the UTM?
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0 darrellr over 7 years ago in reply to harshw

XG is the new generation, using a likely newer version of snort than the older UTM (or perhaps a totally different IDS engine - I haven't yet installed XG). I seriously doubt they will put much effort into new features for the UTM platform or significant updates to the individual pieces.
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0 darrellr over 7 years ago in reply to harshw

XG is the new generation, using a likely newer version of snort than the older UTM (or perhaps a totally different IDS engine - I haven't yet installed XG). I seriously doubt they will put much effort into new features for the UTM platform or significant updates to the individual pieces.
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