Firestorm v0.6.x - A Network Intrusion Detection Suite

Copyright (c) 2001-2008 Gianni Tedesco (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk)

This software is released under the GNU GPL version 3 (see: COPYING)

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0x0. Introduction

Firestorm is a next generation network intrusion detection system. It aims for developing a modern system with the following core features:

1. Application layer protocol state tracking
2. Passive OS + application software detection
3. Stateful rule language and event correlation
4. Framework for detecting web based attacks
5. Support for SMP and other forms of hardware acceleration

It is free software and aims to be relatively clean and portable code-base.

0x1. Compilation from Source

The following command ought to do it:

$ ./configure && make && su -c "make install"

If you like and use this software then press to donate towards its development progress and email me to say what features you would like added.