Re: on network monitoring and security - req for monitoring tools

[Charles N Wyble <charles () knownelement com>]

On 08/23/2010 07:40 AM, Scott Berkman wrote:
> Are you looking only at Open Source tools?  If not you are missing all of
> the most widely deployed tools out there (including):
>
>
> You will also need to look at separate security monitoring software if your
> goal is to cover that.  Not including any commercial vendors, I'd say you at
> least need to include:
> SNORT (possibly including a front end like BASE/ACID)
> Suricata
> Nessus
>    

These days I use openvas.org instead of nessus.