Snort Community
With over 3 million downloads and 100,000+ active users, SNORT® has become
the most widely deployed intrusion detection technology worldwide. As the
de facto standard for intrusion detection and prevention, Snort is integrated
into hundreds of third-party solutions.
The power and reach of Snort is due in large part to the power and reach
of the Snort user community. Aside from the seasoned developers at Sourcefire,
there are literally thousands of experienced programmers adding to the functionality
and rule sets. By leveraging the "many eyeballs" theory that was
popularized by Eric Raymond and used to launch Linux to success in the operating
systems market, people in the open source Snort community worldwide can detect
and respond to bugs and other security threats more quickly and efficiently
than in a "closed" environment.
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