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Proofpoint ET Open Rules

license: see source

Proofpoint's free Emerging Threats ruleset for Suricata and Snort, updated daily — the baseline IDS signatures most network sensors ship with.

Summary

Formats
suricata-rulessnort-rules
License
license: see source
Added
2026-09-10

Get it

From the project’s own instructions where it documents any; otherwise a plain clone.

  1. Download from rules.emergingthreats.net ↗

    Start from the source page, or use the commands below.

  2. shell
    $ curl -LO https://rules.emergingthreats.net/open/suricata-7.0.3/emerging.rules.tar.gz

    The Suricata 7 ruleset. Snort builds sit alongside it in snort-2.9.0/ and snort-edge/.

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