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Surveillance or dead lock?
News On a switched network, you need to greatly increase the number of intrusion detection sensors to monitor traffic on all the network segments. Intrusion prevention is an outgrowth of intrusion detection, and intrusion prevention products offer...
[August 20, 2002, 20:19]
TippingPoint to push into Euro security market
News TippingPoint's intrusion prevention systems, sold under the UnityOne brand, analyse network traffic looking for patterns that suggest a cyberattack is taking place, and take action to stop the attack by inspecting the packets flowing across the...
[October 23, 2003, 14:05]
Report: US air-traffic control systems hacked
News The breaches were possible because web applications that support the air-traffic control system operations are not properly secured to prevent unauthorised access and network intrusion-detection software is not adequately being used to monitor and...
[May 8, 2009, 8:53]
Pre-emptive security prompts alarms
News Initially an intrusion-detection appliance, StealthWatch is designed to identify zero-day, unknown, and undocumented attacks by alerting network teams about 'not normal' network traffic," according to Chris Hovis, VP of marketing and business...
[June 14, 2004, 11:20]
IDS: The integrated partner for your firewall
News Along those same lines, an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is powerful tool that IT managers should consider in order to protect their information resources. Intrusion Detection Systems can be deployed at the point of insertion, behind the...
[April 23, 2003, 8:33]
Cisco starts security push
News Cisco has also beefed up its intrusion detection product by adding prevention software that can correlate possible symptoms of a worm or virus attack to determine whether certain traffic should be blocked.
[February 14, 2005, 8:00]
Prevx intrusion detection puts agents on desktops
News Pervx's Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) will compete directly with Cisco's Security Agent, which was launched earlier this year. Unlike traditional intrusion detection systems (IDS), Pervx does not rely on predefined signatures to recognise attacks.
[December 17, 2003, 11:40]
Gov't web monitoring plans unworkable, warns Linx
News Unprecedented' level of intrusion The volume of data the government now proposes CSPs should collect and retain will be unprecedented, as is the overall level of intrusion into the privacy of the citizenry," said the Linx response.
[August 4, 2009, 15:55]
Cisco flaw threatens Wi-Fi networks
News Controllers are used by operators of large Wi-Fi networks, which typically include many access points, to centrally control functions such as security policies, intrusion prevention and radio frequency management.
[November 3, 2005, 11:05]
Firewalls failing to protect banks, says security expert
News Intrusion detection and prevention technologies, which allow systems to examine each packet for malware, are also used. We started out filtering ports, then came the stateful inspection firewall, then we added intrusion prevention systems, and now...
[October 9, 2009, 8:13]
Protocol analysers are good for admin work
News I'm going to explain how you can use various protocol analysers on your network to perform such tasks as benchmarking, intrusion detection, and troubleshooting e-mail problems. Perform intrusion detection
[April 18, 2002, 16:14]
Mysterious Net traffic puzzles experts
News None of the operating systems are going to start with a window size of that (55,808 bytes) size," said Joe Stewart, senior intrusion analyst with managed security service provider LURHQ (pronouced "lurk"), who also did a significant amount of...
[June 23, 2003, 8:31]
Big Brother in the black box
News Running modified intrusion detection programs, the boxes will be capable of "sniffing" traffic between the ISP and citizens' computers, gleaning information upon demand. Under the RIP Bill, British police will have the right to intercept email...
[July 13, 2000, 9:56]
Change of tactics in war on viruses
News This would be true if we just relied on creating signature definitions, but we also have Internet traffic monitoring, and intrusion detection and protection systems. The technology that IronPort uses to filter spam and quarantine emails is...
[March 1, 2006, 14:35]
Slammer worm claims victim Down Under
News Following an upgrade to its firewall and intrusion detection systems, many of Macquarie's Sydney-based co-location customers found their Web sites and intranet systems either completely inaccessible or painfully slow.
[January 17, 2005, 8:50]
Election 2001: Tory manifesto embraces freedom of the Net
News Whilst we want to crack down on Internet crime, we are anxious to minimise levels of intrusion," said Duncan. RIPA errs too far into intrusion," argues Duncan. The Conservative party is proposing a laissez-faire approach towards regulating the...
[May 22, 2001, 12:46]
Cisco slammed despite upgrades
News Many intrusion prevention solutions have suffered from a high rate of false positives, causing some nonthreatening traffic to be dropped. In early 2003, it acquired Okena, a small maker of intrusion prevention software for desktops, in a deal...
[March 10, 2004, 9:30]
Wanted: Hackers to attack the House of Commons
News The House of Commons is also looking to buy an intrusion prevention system - a combination of intrusion detection software and a firewall - to reduce the risk of DoS attacks, virus outbreaks and Trojans.
[May 3, 2005, 10:05]
IBM tackles security with a blade
News Along with the BladeCenter PN41, the main components of TISS are IBM Proventia Intrusion Prevention and IBM Tivoli Security Operations Manager. The IBM blade aims to reduce security threats, such as viruses and denial-of-service attacks, by...
[September 3, 2008, 17:25]
Putting broadband to work
News It won't do videoconferencing or intrusion logging, but is free -- and with Windows XP onwards, comes with a firewall. You can run Microsoft's Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) on the PC connected to the broadband line: that PC will then translate...
[November 6, 2002, 12:29]
