What is Suricata ================ 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 `__). Suricata is developed by the OISF. About the Open Information Security Foundation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ------- 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`.