IDSs are not for every network, but when they are deployed in the right place, at the right time and monitored by the right network security professional, it’s the right kind of product. Those are the ...

Network intrusion-detection systems as a product class have been under attack recently, fueled by a series of recent Gartner reports, one of which was called “Intrusion detection is dead – long live ...

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 ...

False IDS alerts driving you nuts? The best protection against unwanted intrusion may be a layered defense that uses firewalls, IDS, and IPS After the Nachi worm hit last year, Joe Granneman, manager ...

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 ...