What is Suricata
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Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine. It is open source and owned by a community-run non-profit foundation, the Open Information Security Foundation (`OISF <https://oisf.net>`__). Suricata is developed by the OISF.

About the Open Information Security Foundation
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The Open Information Security Foundation is a non-profit foundation organized to build community and to support open-source security technologies like Suricata, the world-class IDS/IPS engine.

License
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The Suricata source code is licensed under version 2 of the
:doc:`licenses/gnu-gpl-v2.0`.

This documentation is licensed under the
:doc:`licenses/cc-nc-4.0`.
