New Open Source Intrusion Detector Suricata Released

richrumble writes "The OISF has released the beta version of the Suricata IDS/IPS engine: The Suricata Engine is an Open Source Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine. This engine is not intended to just replace or emulate the existing tools in the industry, but will bring new ideas and technologies to the field. This new Engine supports Multi-Threading, Automatic Protocol Detection (IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP, TLS, FTP and SMB! ), Gzip Decompression, Fast IP Matching and coming soon hardware acceleration on CUDA and OpenCL GPU cards."

On first glance

[joeflies]

I thought that the "Open Source Intrusion Detector" spotted intrusions of open source software in the company. I'm sure that Microsoft would have loved to have one of those for the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool.

Apparently it can't stop a DoS

[istartedi]

If it were really that good, it would sniff the referrer on all the HTTP requests and throttle Slashdot.