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 ...

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: ...

Do you feel your network is safe? Do you really know what is happening on your network right now? Once upon a time, there were network administrators who thought that the solution to their security ...

Protecting the network is only one task of a modern IDS and IPS solution. But what if an attack gets passed the perimeter and lands at the device sitting on an end-user’s desk? Symantec, a household ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...