New Linux tool boosts security
Source: CNet News
A small Australian company has released a Linux-based security tool it hopes will help speed corporate acceptance of the open-source operating system.
InterSect Alliance has developed the first security auditing system for Linux, beating much larger organizations to the punch. Its new tool, SNARE (System Intrusion Analysis and Reporting Environment), is the first intrusion detection system to reside on individual computers rather than a network, according to Leigh Purdie, principal security consultant for InterSect.
How do the two systems differ? While a network-based detection tool enables the consumer to determine when an intrusion is being attempted, the host-based system allows the consumer to identify when an intrusion has been successful.
