What Is Suricata?
Suricata is a powerful open-source security tool that combines high-performance threat detection, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, network security monitoring and packet capture capabilities.
Since network traffic represents an essential vantage point to identify emerging threats and active intrusions, the Suricata Network Sensor is at the heart of any successful deployment.
Impaired Sensor performance can lead to critical gaps in network visibility, which can result in attacks going undetected – enabling them to dwell longer and propagate deeper across the network.