This whitepaper provides an overview of Open Source IDS and the various IDS tools available today. Whether you need to monitor hosts or the networks connecting them to identify the latest threats, these are some of the best open source intrusion detection (IDS) tools available to you.

You'll learn:

• The functions of network and host-based IDS, and file integrity monitoring
• A list of the most popular Open Source IDS tools
• Pros and cons of the various tools available today