To protect your enterprise's network, it is critical to select the intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS) offerings that effectively block attacks and complement your existing security ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Selection, placement and maintenance of intrusion detection systems (IDS) are based on the requirements and current infrastructure of a company. One product may work well for one company and fail for ...

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 ...

Enterprise IT departments deploy intrusion detection systems to gain visibility into potentially malicious activities happening within their technology environments. A longtime corporate cyber ...

Firewalls are so 2000s. With your "office" now scattered over homes everywhere, you need a new way of protecting your office from network threats and that's IDSs. It used to be so easy. Everything ...

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 ...

In our tests of five leading network intrusion-detection systems and the popular open source Snort, performance was spotty during baseline testing and degraded by as much as 50% on some products when ...

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 ...