A comparative Study of Various Intruder Detection Tools

Abstract

Today is the era of internet. The vast information is exchange day to day life over the network using internet. The various
attacks that is harmful for data such as Denial of Service, Sniffer attacks and Application-Layer attacks. The basic concern is
to provide the security to such attacks. A wide variety of algorithm has been developed which can detect and prevents with
these security threat. Among all of these, the Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is one of the security technology plays a vital
role in detecting and preventing both insider and outsider attack by scanning the traffic in multiple ways and pass reports to
the administrator. This paper compares the various features and parameters of existing IDS tools such as Snort, Suricata, Bro,
and NFR etc.