snort: Snort (Intrusion Detection and Prevention System) snort: snort: Snort is an open source network intrusion detection and prevention snort: system. It is capable of performing real-time traffic analysis, snort: alerting, blocking and packet logging on IP networks. It utilizes a snort: combination of protocol analysis and pattern matchingin order to snort: detect anomalies, misuse and attacks. snort: Snort is capable of detecting and responding in real-time, sending snort: alerts, performing session sniping, logging packets, or dropping snort: sessions/packets when deployed in-line. snort: