Designed to fill the gap left by expensive, heavy-duty network intrusion detection systems, Snort is a free, cross-platform packet sniffer, logger, and intrusion detector for monitoring smaller TCP/IP ...

Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems. Intrusion detection systems ...

A variety of intrusion detection systems (IDS) are on the market, ranging from enterprise-level, managed network monitoring solutions to simple on-the-host logging systems. There is also a distinction ...

Network-based intrusion-detection systems (IDS) are an integral component of a layered IT security strategy. As October is National Cyber Awareness Month, if your overall security system doesn’t ...

Sourcefire this week is expected to announce add-on software called Intrusion Agent for its intrusion-detection system freeware Snort. The add-on will let the freeware version of Snort work with an ...

An intrusion detection software basically checks for changes made by unwanted programs that could be injected into your systems by cybercriminals. All of them study the data packets—incoming and ...

Everyone should employ an intrusion detection system (IDS) to monitor their network and flag any suspicious activity or automatically shut down potentially malicious traffic. We look at five of the ...