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 ...

An intrusion detection software basically checks for changes made by unwanted programs that could be injected into your systems by cybercriminals. All of them study the data packets—incoming and ...

That's where rogue AP detection comes in. WiMetrics' WiSentry AP agent runs as a service on one PC per network segment, or, if you have a lot of VLANs, an agent can listen on an 802.1Q trunked ...

An Intrusion Detection System is essentially a very smart observer. It sniffs every packet, checks it against a signature or behavioral rule, and, if something looks shady, alerts you to its ...

Network-based intrusion-detection systems (IDS) are an integral component of a layered IT security strategy. As October is National Cyber Awareness Month, if your overall security system doesn’t ...

The company's contracts with clients, as well as regulations, require it to have strong intrusion detection and intrusion prevention measures, he notes. "But a traditional approach - network-based - ...

There have been many cases reported in both trade and national press recently about the increasing threat of cyber attacks, and the methodology employed ...

The existing literature on intrusion detection systems (IDSs) heavily emphasizes technological advancements, particularly the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) for threat detection. Numerous ...

In a column about syslog [see “syslog Configuration” in the December 2001 issue of LJ] I mentioned “stealth logging”--by running your central log server without an IP address, you can hide your ...