Host-based IDS software complements the capabilities of other security products such as network-based IDS, decoy-based IDS and firewalls. If the security threats of the past few weeks have taught us ...

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 ...

If a firewall is like having a security guard at your office door, checking the credentials of everyone coming and going, then an intrusion-detection system (IDS) is like having a network of sensors ...

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: ...

Use of security tools are increased over recent years as a result of increased number of malicious events. To detect possible anomalous events security administrator makes use of intrusion detection ...

European researchers recently demonstrated proof-of-concept of how your antivirus and host-based IDS/IPS engines could be used against you. (See Researchers: Bugs Can Turn Security Tools Against Their ...

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 ...

Security software maker Symantec's latest products use intrusion-detection technology that it acquired from other companies. Two of the products that it unveiled Monday fall into the major categories ...

Security company Symantec issued updated versions of a number of software products on Monday under the guise of a new security framework it calls Symantec Intrusion Protection. The Cupertino, ...

While intrusion-detection technologies are clearly not a hot new thing anymore, they are still the subject of active industry debate. Since the infamous “IDS Is Dead” piece was published by Gartner ...

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 ...