Host-Based Intrusion Systems for Solaris

Locating a Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) that will run on only Sun SPARC Solaris Unix machines is almost an impossibility. Most Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) include PC or Intel-based computers as part of the required hardware for commercial IDS software. Narrowing the field of all available IDS packages to those that support Sun SPARC Solaris Unix machines was not an easy task. IDS requirements are presented, with an analysis of currently available IDS software packages and a recommendation of the best HIDS package to manage a suite of Solaris machines.