How To Install Suricata

Suricata combines intrusion detection (IDS), intrusion prevention (IPS), network security monitoring (NSM) and PCAP processing, to quickly identify, stop, and assess sophisticated network attacks. It is open source and owned by a community-run non-profit foundation, the Open Information Security Foundation.

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