Top 10 Snort Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Snort Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls
By Palo Alto Networks
4.5/5
(167)
Product Description
Our next-generation firewall classifies all traffic, including encrypted traffic, based on application, application function, user and content. You can create comprehensive, precise security policies, resulting in safe enablement of applications. This lets only authorized users run sanctioned applications, greatly reducing the surface area of cyber attacks across the organization.
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Reviewers say compared to Snort, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls is:
More expensive
Better at meeting requirements
Better at support
Categories in common with Snort:
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)

Ossec
By Ossec
4.6/5
(10)
Product Description
Ossec is an open source host-based intrusion detection system that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection and process monitoring.
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Reviewers say compared to Snort, Ossec is:
Better at meeting requirements
Better at support
Categories in common with Snort:
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)

CrowdSec
By CrowdSec
4.7/5
(87)
Product Description
CrowdSec is a collaborative, free and open source security automation platform relying on both IP behavior analysis and IP reputation. CrowdSec identifies threats and shares IP addresses behind malevolent behaviors across its community, to allow everyone to block them preventively. Used in 90 countries across 6 continents, the solution builds a real-time IP reputation database that keeps growing every day and benefits all community members who have each other's backs while forming a global defense shield.
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Reviewers say compared to Snort, CrowdSec is:
Better at meeting requirements
Better at support
More usable
Categories in common with Snort:
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)

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LevelBlue USM Anywhere
By LevelBlue
4.4/5
(114)
Product Description
AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) is a platform that provides five essential security capabilities in a single console to manage both compliance and threats, understanding the sensitive nature of IT environments, include active, passive and host-based technologies to match the requirements of each particular environment.
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Reviewers say compared to Snort, LevelBlue USM Anywhere is:
Better at meeting requirements
More expensive
Better at support
Categories in common with Snort:
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)

Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)
By Cisco
4.1/5
(17)
Product Description
High performance. Resiliency. Security operations empowerment. NGIPS receives new policy rules and signatures every two hours, so your security is always up to date.
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Reviewers say compared to Snort, Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) is:
More expensive
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Snort:
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)

ExtraHop
By ExtraHop Networks
4.6/5
(68)
Product Description
ExtraHop Reveal(x) provides cloud-native visibility, detection, and response for the hybrid enterprise.
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Reviewers say compared to Snort, ExtraHop is:
Better at meeting requirements
More expensive
Better at support
Categories in common with Snort:
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)

Hybrid Cloud Security
By Trend Micro
4.5/5
(187)
Product Description
Hybrid Cloud Security solution, powered by XGen security, delivers a blend of cross-generational threat defense techniques that have been optimized to protect physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.
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Reviewers say compared to Snort, Hybrid Cloud Security is:
Better at meeting requirements
More expensive
Better at support
Categories in common with Snort:
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)

Trellix Network Detection and Response (NDR)
By Trellix
4.1/5
(66)
Product Description
FireEye Network Security (NX) solutions protect against known and unknown advanced attacks with the signature-less Multi-Vector Virtual Execution (MVX) engine, conventional intrusion prevention system (IPS) and intelligence-driven detection.
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Reviewers say compared to Snort, Trellix Network Detection and Response (NDR) is:
More expensive
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Snort:
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)

Blumira Automated Detection & Response
By Blumira
4.6/5
(123)
Product Description
Blumira's Automated SIEM enables organizations to detect and respond effectively to cybersecurity threats without having a dedicated in-house security operations center or security expertise.
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Reviewers say compared to Snort, Blumira Automated Detection & Response is:
Better at meeting requirements
Better at support
More expensive
Categories in common with Snort:
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)