Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) aim at detecting attacks against computer systems and networks or, in general, against information systems. Its basic aim is to protect the system against malwares ...

Our Technology Update this week takes a look at one of the last lines of defense in the war against viruses, worms and other attacks brought to us by the ne’er-do-wells of the networked world: ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

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 ...

The role of decoy-based intrusion-detection technology, or “honeypots,” is evolving. Once used primarily by researchers as a way to attract hackers to a network system in order to study their ...

McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention, a signature-based intrusion detection system, keeps organizations safe from potential threats, but it also limits which programs and services administrators or ...

Bill Dougherty, vice president of IT and security, Omada Health Chronic disease management firm Omada Health, whose clients include large employers and health insurers, has been changing its approach ...

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Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a type of security management for computers connected in a network. IDS monitor the network for security breach to analyze and identify the intruders. Intrusion ...

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 ...