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 ...

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 ...

Putting in technical safeguards to spot network intruders or detect denial-of-service attacks at e-commerce servers is a prudent idea. But if your staff doesn’t have the time or skills to install and ...

Network-based intrusion detection and prevention systems protect the company LAN from outside threats, and they can guard against evil traveling from one busy internal segment to another. But due to ...

Network security software company Network Associates continued its Intrusion Prevention buying spree, saying on Friday that it would acquire privately held Entercept Security Technologies for $120 ...