InterSect Alliance SNARE: New Auditing System for Linux Security

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. . . . 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.

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