Re: Checkpoint Acquisition and the future of Open Source Snort

[Jennifer Steffens <jennifer.steffens () sourcefire com>]

Rules will continued to be distributed in the same fashion as before. I 
am not entirely sure what you mean by "release" rules so here are the 
details. There are two types of rules available on snort.org - VRT 
Certified and Community. VRT Certified rules are distributed as follows:
* Subscribers receive rulesets in real-time as they are released
* Registered users receive rulesets after a 5 day delay
* Unregistered users receive access to the latest ruleset at the time of 
each Snort point release (2.4, 2.5, etc).

These rules are always distributed under the VRT Certified Rules 
License, regardless of the timing of the release. The Community ruleset 
is distributed under the GPL and is freely available to all users.

Hope this answers your question.

Cheers,
Jennifer


Wally Bedford wrote:
> Jennifer;
>
> I have not read any comments regarding access to the rules.  Is there a
> commitment to maintain the current method of obtaining "release" rules as
> well as updates?
>
> Snort is a great packet sniffer, and I'm glad to read about the ongoing
> development and support for it.  However, intrusion detection = snort +
> rules.
>
>
> Wally
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net
> [mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of Jennifer
> Steffens
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 10:21 AM
> To: Sam Evans
> Cc: snort-users @ lists. sourceforge. net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Checkpoint Acquisition and the future of Open
> Source Snort
>
> Both Marty and Gil Shwed, Check Point CEO, have commented on this. In a 
> letter to customers and partners, Gil Shwed wrote "Check Point is fully 
> committed to all existing Sourcefire and Check Point product lines and 
> the Snort open source community, and we look forward to further growing 
> these solutions in the future."
>
> In addition, Mary wrote a message to the community that states "Snort is 
> now and will continue to be free to end-users.  We will continue to 
> develop and distribute the Snort engine under the GPL, improve and 
> document the program to stay on the cutting edge and expand the 
> snort.org web site.  The community continues, as always, to be important 
> to us as a group of people who use the code pervasively throughout the 
> entire Internet, report on problems and make suggestions and 
> contributions to the project.  Check Point is very excited about 
> continuing Sourcefire's involvement with the open source community!"
>
> You can read Marty's full message at 
> http://www.snort.org/about_snort/msg_from_marty/mr_100605.html
>
> Cheers,
> Jennifer
>
>
> --
> Jennifer Steffens
> Director, Product Management - Snort
> Sourcefire, Inc
>
> Sam Evans wrote:
>
> > I think this email is directed more at the Sourcefire folks more so than 
> > the list, but I am curious as to the future of Open Source Snort now 
> > that Checkpoint is in the mix?  Will it remain Open Soruce?
>
>
>
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