Our Technology Update this week takes a look at one of the last lines of defense in the war against viruses, worms and other attacks brought to us by the ne’er-do-wells of the networked world: ...

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 ...

Patching is supposed to secure your organization from the latest batch of malicious code. But try telling that to the state of Alaska’s IT department. Staffers were working diligently to stay ...

In a similar fashion to its quiet acquisition of the VDI desktop broker Propero, VMware has quietly acquired a company called Determina and its host intrusion prevention software - although terms of ...

Network Associates Inc.'s host-based intrusion-prevention system could get some additional muscle to prevent distributed denial-of-service attacks. The company's Entercept tool protects applications, ...

One of the biggest challenges when it comes to operating today’s sophisticated data centers is the fact that they touch almost all aspects of an organization’s IT department and business processes.

IDS (intrusion detection system) products have been undergoing a renaissance of late. By incorporating application-layer packet-filtering capabilities, they are evolving to provide more than just ...

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 ...