This document discusses the history and capabilities of the network intrusion detection system SNORT. It provides an overview of SNORT's origins as a weekend project in 1998, its growth with support from the security community, and its commercialization. The document also previews SNORT's open source Razorback project and provides links on SNORT deployment, common web attacks that SNORT can detect like XSS and SQL injection, and penetration testing tools that can be used alongside SNORT.