Sourcefire Intrusion Agents

Combining Open Source Roots with Proprietary Innovation to offer the most effective real-time network defence solutions on the planet

The Sourcefire's 3D System offers a fully integrated real-time network defence infrastructure that combines state-of-the-art monitoring, perimeter defence, system management and real-time network awareness. Sourcefire's 3D System allows users to leverage essential security data more effectively, reducing security costs and improving the effectiveness of the security administrators. Now, with the introduction of the Sourcefire Intrusion Agent, organisations are finally able to gain many of the benefits available with the Sourcefire 3D System while protecting their investment in their open source Snort deployments.


Beyond Basic Detection

The Sourcefire Intrusion Agent allows open source Snort users to do more than just detect intrusions; it enables a single Sourcefire Defense Center to aggregate event information from one or more Snort sensors alongside data from Sourcefire Intrusion Sensors and Sourcefire RNA sensors. This allows:

The Sourcefire Intrusion Agent transmits events generated by open source Snort sensors to the Sourcefire Defense Center, where it can be tightly integrated with the network and vulnerability information provided by Sourcefire RNA Sensors to create a persistent, comprehensive view of the security events on your network. This provides a level of contextual intelligence that finally enables Snort users to protect the real assets on their networks instead of merely attempting to assess the hostility of the packets traversing the network. The Intrusion Agent enables Snort users to easily determine:

System Requirements