14 DAY TRIAL // Suricata, a high-performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine that is open source and owned by a community run non-profit foundation, the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF), is now at version 1.4 Beta 2.
Suricata 1.4 Beta 2 comes with one major addition, a usable lua scripting keyword for detection, luajit, but it also brings some important performance enhancements.
Highlights of Suricata 1.4 Beta 2:
• The ability to control per server HTTP parser settings in much more detail has been added; • IP Defrag engine has been rewritten to improve performance and fix locking logic; • Big performance improvement in inspecting decoder, stream and app layer events, has been implemented; • Pool performance improvements have been made; • Bundled docs are installed upon make install.
A complete list of changes and new features are available in the official changelog.
Download Suricata 1.4 Beta 2 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.