In our tests of five leading network intrusion-detection systems and the popular open source Snort, performance was spotty during baseline testing and degraded by as much as 50% on some products when ...

If you don’t have a lot of budget at your disposal, these open-source intrusion detection tools are worth a look. As businesses grapple with the pandemic, millions of workers are no longer working in ...

While many IT security professionals regard intrusion-preventions systems to be a natural extension of intrusion-detection systems, an IPS is actually another type of access control mechanism, rather ...

Artificial Immune Systems for Intrusion Detection Using C# Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a demonstration program that models biological immune systems to identify network ...

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 ...

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 ...

The changing security landscape and closer integration with network platforms have created myriad new challenges for users and their security systems.

An IDS, or an intrusion detection system, is a popular security tool that scans a network 24/7 and alerts you the moment it detects something fishy like unauthorized devices attempting to connect to ...