Snort vs. OSSEC
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Snort | Score8.4 out of 10 | N/A | Sourcefire developed Snort, an open source intrusion prevention system capable of real-time traffic analysis and packet logging. Snort was acquired (and is now supported) by Cisco in 2013. | N/A |
 OSSEC | N/A | N/A | OSSEC is a server intrusion detection for every platform. OSSEC is fully open source and free, and can be tailored to meet a business's security needs through its configuration options, adding custom alert rules and writing scripts to take action when alerts occur. The OSSEC+ edition, also free, provides additional capabilities to the basic OSSEC version such as the Machine Learning System for those that simply register. | N/A |
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| Editions & Modules | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | ||||||||||||||
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.1 | - |