Here’s a quick network security quiz: When it comes to detecting and stopping IT threats, is it better to position intrusion prevention systems: On the network At particularly important devices on the ...

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 ...

While many IT security professionals regard intrusion-preventions systems to be a natural extension of intrusion-detection systems, an IPS is actually another type of access control mechanism, rather ...

First Citizens Bank, a regional bank based in Raleigh, N.C., got hit by the Code Red worm. That's not something you would have read in any news report. First Citizens didn't tell anyone about it, and ...

Network managers don’t need a primer on the threats that could befall their networks, from man-in-the-middle threats from rogue APs to the global ransomware epidemic. It’s a bad situation that shows ...

In most organizations, the existing security infrastructure consisting of firewall and network intrusion detection systems (IDS) is no longer sufficient. To deliver immediate protection against the ...

Firewalls are so 2000s. With your "office" now scattered over homes everywhere, you need a new way of protecting your office from network threats and that's IDSs. It used to be so easy. Everything ...

Targeted hacker attacks on enterprises have been increasing, and are generally launched by more sophisticated and motivated attackers. Intrusion prevention is gaining importance while intrusion ...

Do you ever wonder if your organization is running its intrusion detection and prevention system to its fullest potential? If so, you’re not alone. Many security professionals share the feeling that ...

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 ...

At a time of growing concern about the security of interconnected devices in homes, a startup aims to provide consumers with a type of network security system traditionally used by businesses. At the ...

The growing speed at which malicious hackers can exploit new vulnerabilities is creating a need for intrusion-prevention technologies capable of proactively detecting and blocking attacks even before ...