Sourcefire Founder Martin Roesch to Discuss Future of Snort and Real-Time Adaptive Network Security

April 17, 2009 - PRLog -- Open source innovator and Snort(R) creator, Sourcefire, Inc. , a leader in real-time adaptive network security, today announced that its founder and CTO, Martin Roesch, will discuss his vision for the future of Snort and next-generation network security and intrusion prevention system (http://www.sourcefire.com/solutions/etm/ips) design at two leading conferences the week of April 20, 2009.

Roesch will be speaking at the following conferences:

* At the America's Growth Capital 5th Annual Information Security and West Coast Emerging Growth Conference, Roesch will talk about the history of Snort and provide insights on the future of Enterprise Threat Management technologies.
* At the RSA Conference, Roesch will discuss the Snort 3.0 architecture, which incorporates cutting-edge ideas in intrusion detection and prevention system design.

"Snort and The Future of Real-Time Adaptive Network Security"
Who:    Martin Roesch, CTO and Founder of Sourcefire, Creator of Snort
When:    Monday, April 20, 2009, 2:30pm PDT / 5:30pm EDT
Where:    America's Growth Capital 5th Annual Information Security and West Coast Emerging Growth Conference
      Westin, San Francisco, CA
Webcast:             

This event will be webcast and interested listeners may access the live broadcast in the Investors section of Sourcefire's Web site at: http://investor.sourcefire.com

"The Future of Snort"
Who:    Martin Roesch, CTO and Founder of Sourcefire, Creator of Snort
When:    Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 3:40pm PDT
Where:    RSA 2009
      Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA

Martin Roesch has a long history of identifying real-world challenges and developing solutions that address those exact needs, delivering innovative technologies that consistently change the way users protect their networks and assets. In 1998 he developed Snort, which quickly became the world's most widely deployed Intrusion Detection and Prevention technology with more than 225,000 active users and over 3.7 million downloads to date. Snort is the de facto standard for intrusion detection and prevention, used extensively by Fortune 100 and Global 500 enterprises and government agencies. Snort's success served as a springboard for Roesch to start Sourcefire, the first security company to go public since 2001.

Roesch's leadership has expanded beyond Sourcefire to permeate the security and open source communities. Most recently, Roesch was named one of eWeek's Top 100 Most Influential People in IT and was a finalist for Ernst & Young's 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. To view Sourcefire's awards, go to http://www.sourcefire.com/news/awards/.

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Sourcefire, Inc. , Snort creator and open source innovator, is a world leader in Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) solutions. Sourcefire is transforming the way Global 2000 organizations and government agencies manage and minimize network security risks with its 3D Approach - Discover, Determine, Defend - to securing real networks. This ETM approach equips customers with an efficient and effective layered security defense - protecting network assets before, during and after an attack. Through the years, Sourcefire has been consistently recognized for its innovation and industry leadership by customers, media and industry analysts alike - with more than 40 awards and accolades. Today, the names Sourcefire and founder Martin Roesch have grown synonymous with innovation and network security intelligence. For more information about Sourcefire, please visit http://www.sourcefire.com.