Security advances push intrusion detection deeper into the network, relegating its role to forensics investigation and internal monitoring. Drowning in signature libraries and reactive event ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patching is supposed to secure your organization from the latest batch of malicious code. But try telling that to the state of Alaska’s IT department. Staffers were working diligently to stay ...

In the past few newsletters, we’re talked about rate-based intrusion prevention tools. Now let’s turn to content-based IPS, products that block attacks based on the signature patterns of the traffic.

There’s more than one way to snare malicious network traffic, and the more methods your IPS uses to detect bad streams, the better your chances of keeping your network productive. McAfee IntruShield 2 ...