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SuricataFull replacement6.7kGPL-2.0Open sourceYesCsuricata-8.0.72026-10-19

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Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.

Reads Snort rules and adds multi-threading, plus protocol logging in EVE JSON.

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C
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GPL-2.0
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Last push
2026-10-19

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Last push
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