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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Security company Symantec issued updated versions of a number of software products on Monday under the guise of a new security framework it calls Symantec Intrusion Protection. The Cupertino, ...

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 ...

Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems. Intrusion detection systems ...