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portsentry-1.2p0

port scan detection and active defense

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Description

PortSentry is part of the Abacus Project suite of security tools. It is a program designed to detect and respond to port scans against a target host in real-time. There are other port scan detectors that perform similar detection of scans, but PortSentry has some unique features that may make it worth looking into

Package information

Ports path
security/portsentry
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
security
Available flavors
None listed

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Direct dependencies

None listed in sqlports.

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