Sourcefire is partnering with Solera Networks to pair full content network traffic with Snort alert data. This is interesting from a personal level, because it shows that the Network Security Model has finally been accepted by the developer (Marty Roesch) of what is regarded as the most popular intrusion detection system (Snort) In other words, after over eight years of evangelizing the need to collect NSM data (at its core, full content, session, statistical, and alert data) in order to detect and respond to intrusions.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2010/06/all-aboard-nsm-train.html