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IDS, IPS and network monitoring

Network intrusion detection and prevention engines and traffic analysis frameworks that turn packets into alerts and logs.

Alternatives toDarktrace

6 tools

  • CrowdSec

    Collaborative behaviour-based IPS

    Security engine that parses logs to detect aggressive behaviour, blocks it with remediation components and shares signals in a community blocklist.

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    Alternative toCloudflare WAF
  • Wireshark

    Network protocol analyser

    The widely used network protocol analyser: capture live traffic or open capture files and inspect thousands of protocols with display filters.

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    GPL-2.0-onlyOpen sourceNetwork scanning and analysis
  • Zeek

    Network security monitoring and traffic analysis framework

    Network analysis framework, formerly Bro, that turns traffic into rich, structured logs of connections and protocols, with its own scripting language.

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    BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceIDS, IPS and network monitoring
    Alternative toDarktrace
  • Suricata

    Network IDS, IPS and security monitoring engine

    High-performance network threat detection engine from the OISF: signature-based IDS/IPS, protocol logging and file extraction in one multi-threaded engine.

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    GPL-2.0-onlyOpen sourceIDS, IPS and network monitoring
    Alternative toDarktrace
  • Snort 3

    Rule-based network intrusion prevention system

    The next generation of the Snort IPS, maintained by Cisco Talos: multi-threaded, with a new rule parser and Lua-based configuration.

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    GPL-2.0-onlyOpen sourceIDS, IPS and network monitoring
    Alternative toDarktrace