4. A Brief History of SNORT
• Weekend project by Martin Roesch 1998
• to learn libpcap library,Monitor Home Network,Network
Application Debugging
• First SNORT release 1999 with rule and language
• Security Community is key success to SNORT.
• Official SNORT rule maintain and support by VRT and now become
CISCO TALOS team.
• Commercial product (Sourcefire) and Sell to Cisco at 2.7B