Congrats to Martin Roesch and crew for delivering the next in a long line of well respected open source security products. From Snort’s site:
Snort Security Platform (SnortSP) 3.0 Beta
Were pleased to introduce our first beta release built on the new Snort 3.0 architecture. The Snort 3.0 architecture consists of two primary components: a software platform [...]

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