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Snort sold to cisco

Hi!

i just wanted to know what happens to snort used in the UTM products now while cisco bought sourcefire. will their be any changes to the IPS?


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  • Hi William,

    maybe your government to prohibit it, as happened in the case of Check Point's acquisition.

    :-)

    Alda


    I don't think so as Cisco is us based...[:)]

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  • I know, it was a joke.

    Alda
  • Personally I expect after some time, deterioration of product quality and support.

    Now Sourcefire 3D System has no competition. Other manufacturers IPS solutions offer significantly lower quality and functional solution.

    They play a completely different league ...

    Alda
  • Personally I expect after some time, deterioration of product quality and support.

    Now Sourcefire 3D System has no competition. Other manufacturers IPS solutions offer significantly lower quality and functional solution.

    They play a completely different league ...

    Alda


    Let's hope someone forks it before that happens

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  • I suspect somebody will fork it. I just look at what happened with Open Office & MySQL after they were bought out by larger closed source players. Members of the dev teams forked their own projects from the original and are continuing on.
  • Members of the dev teams forked their own projects from the original and are continuing on.

    Alda & Drew, didn't this already happen at Sourcefire?

    Cheers - Bob
     
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  • Alda & Drew, didn't this already happen at Sourcefire?

    Cheers - Bob


    The founder is now head of Cisco's security division

    Owner:  Emmanuel Technology Consulting

    http://etc-md.com

    Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner

    PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng, 

    Other addons to follow