Martin Roesch
Author of Snort
Open-source intrusion detection, and the rule format everyone copied
Rating
89Impact score
Domains
Intrusion detectionPacket analysisOpen source
Scouting report
Wrote Snort in 1998 as a lightweight packet sniffer, and it became the intrusion detection system that put IDS within reach of organisations that could never have bought one. Founded Sourcefire around it, which Cisco acquired in 2013. The Snort rule syntax outlived the product and is still how a large part of the industry writes network detections.
Curator’s note
A weekend tool that became the de facto standard for network detection.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Martin Roesch by Sourcefire press photo, supplied by the subject.
Sources
- 01Martin Roesch en.wikipedia.org
- 02Snort snort.org