snort-rules VS py-idstools

Compare snort-rules vs py-idstools and see what are their differences.

snort-rules

An UNOFFICIAL Git Repository of Snort Rules(IDS rules) Releases. [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked] (by codecat007)

py-idstools

idstools: Snort and Suricata Rule and Event Utilities in Python (Including a Rule Update Tool) (by jasonish)
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snort-rules py-idstools
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3.8 5.6
about 3 years ago 6 months ago
C Python
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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snort-rules

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py-idstools

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    1 project | /r/Splunk | 12 Jun 2023
    I like this a lot. We have a in-house Snort 2 forwarder that does a similar thing with https://github.com/jasonish/py-idstools and forwards the result directly using HEC. We could use the same code base for dnstap if we wanted.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing snort-rules and py-idstools you can also consider the following projects:

Wazuh - Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

wazuh-ruleset - Wazuh - Ruleset

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

Malcolm - Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network traffic analysis tool suite for full packet capture artifacts (PCAP files), Zeek logs and Suricata alerts.

security-onion - Security Onion 16.04 - Linux distro for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management

Fail2Ban - Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

OSSEC - OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.

pulledpork - Pulled Pork for Snort and Suricata rule management (from Google code)