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 ...

A new release of AirDefense’s wireless intrusion prevention and detection software features a major user-interface redesign, big boost in speed, and greatly expanded reporting tool. A new release of ...

Check Point, which has a lot to do with VPNs, is buying Sourcefire, which has almost nothing to do with VPNs, but does make intrusion-detection software based on Snort open source code. This is part ...

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 ...

EDR software has emerged as one of the preeminent tools in the CISO’s arsenal. Here’s what to look for and what to avoid when choosing EDR software. Reveal(x) 360 monitors Microsoft 365 activity for ...

Sourcefire’s open source IDS engine, Snort, has long been the gold standard of signature-based intrusion detection systems. Snort’s commercial sibling, Sourcefire 3D, takes Snort a step further by ...

IntellaStore IV, APCON's new network security appliance, offers the on-box APCON Intelligent Processor (AIp) to run the user's choice of security applications including APCON's own ThreatGuard WILSONV ...

The announcement comes just two days after Network Associates, based here, unveiled a deal to buy IntruVert Networks, a maker of network-based intrusion-detection appliances, for $100 million in cash.

Just a few short years ago, an IDS was a luxury. Before the rise of the Web application and the worm, most networks were adequately defended by a firewall at the perimeter and a virus scanner at the ...