MITRE offers network-security software for free download from Open Channel Foundation

Monday 01st 2001f October 2001 11:11 am

Leaders of the MITRE Corp. in McLean, Va., are giving away their Spitfire hacker-detection software free of charge through the Open Channel Foundation. The software is available for download on the World Wide Web at http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/projects/Spitfire.

Originally developed for military use, Spitfire helps users detect and counter hacker attacks. Spitfire interfaces with commercially available intrusion-detection systems and sends the output of these systems into a database to provide historical and trend analysis of attempted network break-ins...