[ANNOUNCE]: Prelude Hybrid IDS suite 0.9.0 released

[Yoann Vandoorselaere <yoann.v () prelude-ids com>]

PreludeIDS Technologies is pleased to announce the immediate
availability of the Prelude Hybrid IDS Framework 0.9 release, which
represents the culmination of many years of development, creating a full
solution to your IDS needs. 


------[ What's new in 0.9 ? ]------

Many new features and improvements have been made on the various parts
of the Prelude Framework, including the enhancement of the Prelude
underlying architecture for increased performance and reliability, as
well as support for many additional types of devices and logs. 

The newly developed Prewikka front-end has been designed to be a highly
informative interface to all the various functionality offered by the
Prelude Framework.

Other security and access products have included support for the Prelude
Framework in their products. A few examples are Snort NIDS, and Samhain.
Upcoming support is underway for Sancp, Shadow IDS and Mwcollect.

More information about this release is available at:
http://www.prelude-ids.org/article.php3?id_article=124



------[ What is Prelude Hybrid IDS ? ]------

Prelude was born from the observation that more and more IDS systems
exist each with their own focus, but no framework exists in order to
unify and centralize events provided by these different systems.

We believe that relying on a single source of information in order to do
security analysis is not sufficient, since different analysis methods
have different advantages, and that unifying these methods in a strong
and powerful product is the only way to produce a comprehensive security
analysis tool.

Prelude is a Hybrid IDS framework, that is, a product enabling all
security applications, be it open-source or proprietary, to report to a
centralized system. In order to achieve this task, Prelude relies on the
IDMEF (Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format) IETF standard, that
enables different kinds of sensors to generate events using a unique
language.

Prelude provides a C, Python, and Perl framework so that you can convert
existing security applications to use the Prelude Framework. It also
provides sensors such as a log analyzer (Prelude-LML). A Prelude sensor
is a program which has the ability to use the Prelude Framework.

Prelude benefits from its ability to find traces of malicious activity
from different sensors (Snort, honeyd, Nessus Vulnerability Scanner,
Samhain, hundred of systems logs, and many others) in order to better
verify attack vectors and in the end to perform automatic correlation
between the various events.

Prelude is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
version 2 and is available from http://www.prelude-ids.org/. PreludeIDS
Technologies provides commercial licenses of software libraries
“Libprelude” & “Libpreludedb”, in order to enable the developement of
interoperable proprietary solutions.



------[ Commercial Support ]------

The PreludeIDS Technologies company, which develops the Prelude
Intrusion Detection System, provides corporate level support and
development. While providing the core components of the system under the
Open Source development model, it also offers additional products and
custom development geared to the needs of larger corporate clients.

The company, already present in many types of industries, is
particularly focused on providing expertise regarding ID&P (Intrusion
Detection and Prevention) for medium to large sized infrastructures
(multinational, telecoms, etc), entities handling highly confidential
data (military, banks, etc) and networks with remote access (e-learning,
telecommuting, etc.)

Today, in close cooperation with its worldwide Certified Partners,
PreludeIDS Technologies brings its Prelude expertise via a broad range
of products and services:

- PrewikkaPro professional front-end.
- Increased database performance for corporate users. 
- Commercial licenses for Prelude library. 
- Prelude system customization. 
- Software maintenance and technical support. 
- Deployment, Integration.
- Consulting, Training, etc.


See http://www.prelude-ids.com for more information.



------[ Documentation ]------

The Prelude Handbook is a collaborative effort trying to come up with a
complete Prelude-IDS documentation covering architecture, installation,
and configuration instruction.

It is the most up-to-date documentation at this time, and cover
Prelude-IDS 0.9.
https://trac.prelude-ids.org/wiki/PreludeHandbook



------[ Downloading ]------

All component of the Prelude hybrid IDS suite 0.9.0 can be downloaded
from our website: http://www.prelude-ids.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=6

Support for Prelude 0.9.0 is upcoming for Sancp, SHADOW, and Mwcollect.


-- 
Yoann Vandoorselaere | Responsable R&D / CTO | PreludeIDS Technologies
Tel: +33 (0)8 70 70 21 58                  Fax: +33(0)4 78 42 21 58
http://www.prelude-ids.com


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