I mentioned already that I now have more than 25 years of professional experience in #InfoSec.
If I do remember correctly, one of my first experimental installations of an #IntrusionDetectionSystem (#IDS) was the #NetworkFlightRecorder around 2000, together with one of the early #VulnerabilityScanner-s called "Satan".
Shortly after that, we began to develop our own distributed IDS based on #Snort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_for_Analyzing_Networks