snort: Snort (Intrusion Detection and Prevention System) snort: snort: Snort is an open source network intrusion detection and prevention snort: system. snort: snort: Snort is capable of performing real-time traffic analysis, alerting, snort: blocking, session sniping, logging, and dropping sessions and packets. snort: It uses a combination of protocol analysis and pattern matching to snort: detect anomalies, misuse and attacks. snort: snort: