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 and prevention software has become a necessary addition to the information security infrastructure of many organizations, so the National Institute of Standards and Technology is ...

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 ...

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a type of security management for computers connected in a network. IDS monitor the network for security breach to analyze and identify the intruders. Intrusion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I started out my technology career in a manner similar to many others in the industry, by supporting the network and systems of a small Midwestern company. My main task was to simply keep the network ...

Whenever a company connects its network to the Internet, it opens up a whole can of worms regarding security. As the network grows, it will play host to numerous bugs and security loopholes of which ...