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authorDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1998-03-02 10:35:04 +0000
committerDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1998-03-02 10:35:04 +0000
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Bro is a system for detecting Network Intruders in real-time by the guys
that brought you tcpdump, libpcap, and flex. Bro is documented in the the USENIX 1998 Security Conference proceedings.
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+Bro is a system for detecting Network Intruders in real-time by the guys
+that brought you tcpdump, libpcap, and flex.
+
+Bro is a stand-alone system for detecting network intruders in real-time
+by passively monitoring a network link over which the intruder's traffic
+transits. Bro is divided into an "event engine" that reduces a
+kernel-filtered network traffic stream into a series of higher-level
+events, and a "policy script interpreter" that interprets event handlers
+written in a specialized language used to express a site's security policy.
+Event handlers can update state information, synthesize new events, record
+information to disk, and generate real-time notifications via `syslog'.
+
+Bro is documented in the the USENIX 1998 Security Conference proceedings.
+
+-- David
+ obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu