 The Snare Server software was originally designed to meet the needs of Australian-based intelligence agency clients, and distribution was restricted to Australia only.The need for a server solution to complement the increasingly popular Snare agents, pushed the InterSect Alliance team to find overseas partners, and allow distribution internationally.Snare has been described as the 'De Facto standard for Windows event retrieval', and because of its deep roots in the open source movement, coupled with available commercial support options, is used by small non-profit organisations, right up to huge multinational, Fortune-500 companies.