At a time of growing concern about the security of interconnected devices in homes, a startup aims to provide consumers with a type of network security system traditionally used by businesses. At the ...

The SQL Slammer worm began its rampage shortly after midnight on Jan. 25, 2003. Within days, the insidious piece of code had infected more than 120,000 computers, slowed Internet traffic, crashed ...

Intrusion-prevention systems often aren’t used to actually block attack traffic, but instead act more like intrusion-detection systems, according to an Infonetics Research survey of 169 information ...

A robust intrusion prevention system (IPS) is crucial for enhancing cybersecurity. Built to detect and block potential threats actively, an IPS responds before harm can be caused to a system or the ...

Targeted hacker attacks on enterprises have been increasing, and are generally launched by more sophisticated and motivated attackers. Intrusion prevention is gaining importance while intrusion ...

Current Perspective: Positive on Symantec’s pending release of a Network IPS appliance because it fills an obvious and increasingly critical hole in the company’s overall threat protection strategy.

14 November 2005TippingPointTM X505 Makes Businesses More Secure and Efficient by Extending IPS with Firewall, VPN, Bandwidth Management, Web Content Filtering and Additional Security FeaturesDubai, ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

At a time of growing concern about the security of interconnected devices in homes, a startup aims to provide consumers with a type of network security system traditionally used by businesses. At the ...