Friday, October 7. 2005
Big News in the Security World
Check Point Software, the biggest Firewall maker (other than Cisco) just paid $225 Million dollars to buy Sourcefire, the commercial support arm of the open source Snort Instrusion Detection engine. Snort itself will continue to be open-source and free, according to Marty Roesch.
On the other hand, Nessus is closing their source. They've been moving that way for a while, I guess it was inevitable. (Nessus is a very nice vulnerability scanner, uses nmap and other tools to put together very pretty reports).
On the other hand, Nessus is closing their source. They've been moving that way for a while, I guess it was inevitable. (Nessus is a very nice vulnerability scanner, uses nmap and other tools to put together very pretty reports).
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