Argus is a session data collection tool, and probably the most underrated network security application available. I wrote about Argus in my first book, a Sys Admin article, and here. Recently I read on the argus mailing list that Thorbjrn Axelsson posted his thesis Network Security Auditing at Gigabit Speeds online, and it uses Argus. With Argus you at least have the data; with only an overwhelmed IDS or firewall you don’t (or at least not all of it)”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005/03/argus-documention-argus-is-session.html

