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Eight Questions To Ask About Your Intrusion-Security Solution
White Papers Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) have similar names and market analysts tend to lump them together into a single security category - IDP (Intrusion Detection and Prevention).
[August 25, 2009, 0:00]
Improved Detection System of Denial of Service Attack
White Papers A problem with current intrusion detection systems is that they have many false positive and false negative events. Most of the existing Intrusion detection systems implemented nowadays depend on rule-based expert systems where new attacks are not...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
A Case Study: Using Architectural Features to Improve Sophisticated Denial-of-Service Attack Detections
White Papers Application features such as port numbers are used by Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) to detect attacks coming from networks. System calls and the operating system related information are used by Host-based Intrusion Detection...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Surveillance or dead lock?
News Intrusion prevention is an outgrowth of intrusion detection, and intrusion prevention products offer different functionality from intrusion detection products. On a switched network, you need to greatly increase the number of intrusion detection...
[August 20, 2002, 20:19]
Real-Time Multistage Attack Awareness Through Enhanced Intrusion Alert Clustering
White Papers Snort is the most widely deployed intrusion detection sensor. Correlation and fusion of intrusion alerts to provide effective Situation Awareness of cyber-attacks has become an active area of research.
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
CA flaws opens users up to DoS attacks
News A flaw has been discovered in Computer Associates' eTrust Intrusion Detection System that could make the system vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks, according to an advisory by security research company iDefense.
[April 7, 2005, 9:40]
Snort hit by vulnerability
News Snort, the open-source intrusion-detection software, is vulnerable to hackers, its developers revealed this week. Snort's popularity has grown as many businesses have been tempted away from expensive proprietary intrusion-detection systems.
[February 21, 2007, 10:50]
Characterizing Intrusion Tolerant Systems Using a State Transition Model
White Papers Intrusion detection and response research has so far mostly concentrated on known and well-defined attacks. The authors believe that this narrow focus of attacks accounts for both the successes and limitation of commercial in Intrusion Detection...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
Detecting Denial-of-Service Attacks With Incomplete Audit Data
White Papers With the ever increasing deployment and usage of gigabit networks, traditional network anomaly detection based Intrusion Detection Systems have not scaled accordingly. Most, if not all, systems deployed assume the availability of complete and clean...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Snort fails to win approval
News The creator of Snort, the open-source network-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), says the software is up for an overhaul. Now the chief technology officer of US-based Sourcefire, which sells Snort-based intrusion detection systems, Roesch says...
[May 24, 2004, 14:25]
Towards Scalable and Robust Distributed Intrusion Alert Fusion With Good Load Balancing
White Papers Most existing Distributed Intrusion Detection Systems (DIDS) rely on centralized fusion, or distributed fusion with unscalable communication mechanisms. The paper embeds the intrusion symptoms into the DHT dimensions so that alarms related to the...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
New tool camouflages hacker programs
News A new tool for manipulating packets of data that travel over the Internet could allow attackers to camouflage malicious programs just enough to bypass many intrusion-detection systems and firewalls. The tool, called Fragroute, performs several...
[April 22, 2002, 9:11]
Burglar alarm catches hackers on the Net
News The service gives European companies the opportunity to outsource network intrusion detection instead of relying on internal security experts to keep hackers at bay. No other security firms in Europe currently offers a remote network intrusion...
[May 31, 2000, 10:15]
Active Security Technology Comparison Whitepaper
White Papers Intrusion detection and intrusion prevention Host based intrusion detection and intrusion prevention This whitepaper provides you with a detailed comparison of how Active Security compares to, and works with, a number of important industry systems...
[March 6, 2007, 0:00]
Flaw in Cisco WLAN opens up skyjacking risk
News Researchers at AirMagnet, which makes intrusion-detection systems for WLANs, discovered a vulnerability that affects all lightweight Cisco wireless access points. They should then use a separate intrusion detection system to discover whether...
[August 28, 2009, 10:58]
IBM debuts intrusion-prevention tool
News IBM's intrusion-detection tool aims to monitor worm attacks and reduce false positives, or instances in which legitimate actions are classified as malicious intrusions. IBM expanded its security services with the formal unveiling on Monday of its...
[March 28, 2006, 9:40]
Detection of Denial of Service Attacks in Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers Previous research has mainly been on intrusion detection techniques in multi hop networks since due to their ad hoc nature and no central control; it is harder to detect intrusion. This paper proposes an intrusion detection mechanism based on...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Computer Ecology: Responding to Mobile Worms With Location-Based Quarantine Boundaries
White Papers The local wireless links provide an alternative propagation path that circumvents intrusion detection at the service provider gateways. On the mobile nodes, conventional intrusion detection and intrusion response techniques such as address...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Root out more than just network intruders with the flexibility of Snort
White Papers Snort is a free and open source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) that runs on all modern operating systems including Windows and Linux. One of the main advantages of Snort is its flexibility with regard to rules and configuration and its...
[May 25, 2006, 3:17]
PC-cillin Internet Security 12 review
Reviews PC-cillin Internet Security 12 offers two setup choices: a full install loads every protection tool on the CD, while a scaled-down option leaves out extras such as the firewall and the new Wi-Fi Intrusion Detection feature that alerts you when an...
[November 1, 2004, 9:59]
