Open Information Security Foundation

The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) is a non-profit organization created to build community and to support open source security technologies like Suricata, the world-class IDS/IPS network monitoring engine. OISF is dedicated to preserving the integrity of open source security technologies and the communities that keep them thriving. Our team and community members includes world-class security and non-profit experts, programmers, and industry leaders dedicated to open source security technologies. Suricata is a free and open source, mature, fast, and robust network threat detection engine capable of real time intrusion detection (IDS), inline intrusion prevention (IPS), network security monitoring (NSM) and offline packet capture (pcap) processing. Suricata's fast-paced community-driven development focuses on security, usability, and efficiency.