Suricata

Orbit™ Intrusion Detection is a hardened Intrusion Detection System that will assist you in seeing what traffic is going on inside or outside your network. It was developed in response to the lack of visibility into what is happening on our client’s networks. Without this visibility, security threats can persist on the network for months or longer and potentially leading to costly downtime and recovery. Traditional IDS systems are extremely expensive, requiring dedicated personnel to monitor, maintain and respond to the system. By utilizing commodity hardware and open source software, we provide a system that is able to work as a “smoke detector” on the network at a cost that does not require the “all-in” commitment of a full-fledged IDS system. Our offering fills the gap and makes this technology accessible by small to midsize businesses.

Zeek (formerly Bro) is the world’s leading platform for network security monitoring. Flexible, open source, and powered by defenders. Zeek has a long history in the open source and digital security worlds. Vern Paxson began developing the project in the 1990s under the name “Bro” as a means to understand what was happening on his university and national laboratory networks. Vern and the project’s leadership team renamed Bro to Zeek in late 2018 to celebrate its expansion and continued development. Zeek is not an active security device, like a firewall or intrusion prevention system. Rather, Zeek sits on a “sensor,” a hardware, software, virtual, or cloud platform that quietly and unobtrusively observes network traffic. Zeek interprets what it sees and creates compact, high-fidelity transaction logs, file content, and fully customized output, suitable for manual review on disk or in a more analyst-friendly tool like a security and information event management (SIEM) system.