INDIANAPOLIS and PARIS - September 9, 2025 - Stamus Networks, a global provider of high-performance network-based threat detection and response systems, today announced the general availability of Clear NDR® Community 1.0, marking the open-source solution's official production-ready status. This release transforms the popular Suricata-based open-source security monitoring platform with significant enhancements in deployment flexibility, threat intelligence integration, AI integration, and incident investigation capabilities.
Clear NDR Community 1.0 builds upon last year's initial beta release with a more robust architecture, expanded deployment options, and workflow improvements that make it suitable for production environments in small-to-medium sized organizations as well as researchers, educators, students, and hobbyists who wish to explore what is possible with Suricata and the network protocol monitoring logs and alerts it produces.
"With Clear NDR Community 1.0, we're delivering on our promise to provide the most complete open and transparent network security solution that organizations can trust for many smaller environments," said Peter Manev, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Stamus Networks. "As the only open source NDR on the market, and the only one with Suricata 8 and AI-native interfaces, it is uniquely positioned to help security teams experience the power of deep network visibility before considering an upgrade to our Enterprise edition."
Clear NDR Community 1.0 introduces multiple deployment options to accommodate diverse infrastructure requirements:
These options enable deployment on bare metal hardware or virtual machines, providing greater flexibility than the Docker-only format available in the previous beta release.
Clear NDR Community 1.0 includes several significant improvements:
Clear NDR Community is widely used by network security practitioners, researchers, educators, students, and hobbyists to explore what's possible with Suricata IDS/IPS/NSM and the network protocol monitoring logs and alerts it produces. Version 1.0 continues this tradition while offering even more capabilities for experimentation and learning.
"We believe in the power of open security tools to advance the industry's collective defense capabilities," added Peter Manev. "Clear NDR Community 1.0 represents our commitment to supporting both professional security teams in smaller organizations and the broader community of security enthusiasts."
For organizations requiring enterprise-scale deployments, Stamus Networks offers Clear NDR Enterprise, which builds upon the Community edition with additional capabilities for large-scale environments with high-fidelity security and compliance incident detection, machine learning and additional AI capabilities, advanced threat hunting, and automated response workflows.
Clear NDR Community 1.0 is available for download beginning immediately, from the Stamus Networks website. For more information, visit www.stamus-networks.com/clear-ndr-community.
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About Stamus Networks
Stamus Networks believes that cyber defense is bigger than any single person, platform, company, or technology. That’s why we leverage the power of community to deliver the next generation of open and transparent network defense. Trusted by security teams at the world’s most targeted organizations, our flagship offering – Clear NDR® – empowers cyber defenders to uncover and stop serious threats and unauthorized network activity before they harm their organizations. Clear NDR helps defenders see more clearly and act more confidently through detection they can trust with results they can explain. For more information visit www.stamus-networks.com.
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Stamus Networks is the global leader in Suricata-based network security and the creator of the innovative Clear NDR® system. Designed to close visibility gaps and reduce alert fatigue, Clear NDR transforms raw network traffic into actionable security insights with unmatched transparency, customization, and effectiveness. Trusted by leading financial institutions, government agencies, and participants in NATO’s largest cybersecurity exercises, Stamus Networks delivers proven, high-performance network detection and response solutions. Stamus empowers security teams – delivering clarity amidst complexity – with greater control, fewer false positives, faster response times, and a more responsive, open approach than legacy vendors.
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