A variety of intrusion detection systems (IDS) are on the market, ranging from enterprise-level, managed network monitoring solutions to simple on-the-host logging systems. There is also a distinction ...

Intrusion detection technology presents a confusing array of acronyms, abstract concepts, and hazy deliverables. This exacerbates the difficult situation for executives who are asked to pay for these ...

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 ...

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and anomaly detection techniques underpin modern cybersecurity by autonomously monitoring network activities and flagging deviations from normal behaviour. IDS are ...

The crew at the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently published another valuable report for everyone interested in network ...

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 ...

Cisco Systems Inc. this week plans to announce new intrusion-protection software and firewall enhancements, including functionality designed to lower IT staffing costs by drastically reducing false or ...

Back in the early oughts, a common complaint about Linux was that while it was free/libre, it came with no support and you had to pay expensive senior sysadmins to run Linux systems. Fast forward to ...

Rajeev Bhargava is an acknowledged pioneer in the networking and software industry, and CEO of Toronto-based Decision Zone Inc. His career spans more than 30 years within the engineering and IT ...