Detection Plugins


What is a detection plugin and what can it do?

Detection plugins can be considered the heart and soul of snort. They are were a lot of the work is done in the detection engine. The detection engine can be split into two pieces. The first part is the andress/port matching engine. This compare the source and destination address/port pairs against those defined for the various rules. This part of the engine
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