IPFire Linux-Based Hardened Firewall Gets New Intrusion Prevention System

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The IPFire open-source hardened Linux firewall has been updated today to version 2.23 Core Update 131, a release that introduces a brand new IPS (Intrusion Prevention System), various improvements, and updated components.

The most exciting thing about the IPFire 2.23 Core Update 131 release is that is ships with a new Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) that deeply inspects packets and prevents threats, thus making your networks more secure. IPFire previously used Snort as default Intrusion Detection System (IDS), but now it’s been replaced with Suricata.

“This new system has many advantages over the old one in terms of performance, security and it simply put – more modern. We would like to thank the team at Suricata on which it is based for their hard work and for creating such an important tool that is now working inside of IPFire,” explains developer Michael Tremer in the release announcem… (read more)

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