# Snort

#### Introduction

Snort is the foremost Open Source Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) in the world. Snort IPS uses a series of rules that help define malicious network activity and uses those rules to find packets that match against them and generates alerts for users.

- [Snort - Network Intrusion Detection & Prevention System](https://www.snort.org/)
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