It's this simplicity that makes Snort so popular. It is simple and yet it has enough power to protect a good-sized network. It does not try to be everything - it does one job and it does it efficiently. It watches network traffic, looking for rule-based intrusion signatures, alerting and logging when a match is made. There is no GUI, no reporting engine, and no pop-up help file, just a simple command-line utility that sniffs traffic and keeps on sniffing until you tell it to stop. Although there are those who would consider this a weakness, it is exactly what makes it so versatile and so powerful.
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