[Bro] Snort to Bro

Robin Sommer robin at icir.org
Fri Mar 9 12:13:22 PST 2007


On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 19:29 +0000, Jules wrote:

> be enough? is there a real difference betwen the snort rules and Bro 
> policies?

Well, the systems' detection approaches are quite different. Bro
does not primarily rely on pattern matching as Snort does; its
policies use a different abstraction. You can't really compare the
two. 

Robin

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