Forescout vs Snort: What are the differences?

Developers describe Forescout as "A platform that provides continuous security monitoring and mitigation". It is a platform that provides continuous security monitoring and mitigation. It allows IT organizations to efficiently address numerous access, endpoint compliance and threat management challenges even within today's complex, dynamic and expansive enterprise networks. On the other hand, Snort is detailed as "An open-source security software product that looks at network traffic in real time and logs packets to perform detailed analysis". It is an open-source, free and lightweight network intrusion detection system (NIDS) software for Linux and Windows to detect emerging threats.

Forescout and Snort can be primarily classified as "Network Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Forescout are:

• Device visibility
• Continuous compliance enforcement
• Design & Deploy Network Segmentation

On the other hand, Snort provides the following key features:

• Intrusion Agent
• IPSx
• IPS

Snort is an open source tool with 829 GitHub stars and 257 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Snort's open source repository on GitHub.