Intrusion detection systems have one problem, and it's inherent in their names. They've tended to merely detect security threats--not prevent them. But things are starting to shift, with many vendors ...

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 ...

Bill Dougherty, vice president of IT and security, Omada Health Chronic disease management firm Omada Health, whose clients include large employers and health insurers, has been changing its approach ...

The mixed results that users have had dealing with intrusion-detection technologies is fueling greater industry interest in intrusion-prevention products. Last week, Network Associates Inc. announced ...

To help Healthcare IT News readers put up a stronger defense, we created this guide to Intrusion Detection Systems and Intrusion Prevention Systems software with details on the leaders in the field ...

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 ...

No longer is a managed firewall adequate to protect a customer’s vital network and information assets. A complete security offering requires a multiple-layer approach that includes an intrusion ...

While few cybersecurity professionals are putting all of their eggs into the intrusion prevention basket, one-third are favoring intrusion prevention over incident response (IR) at a proportion of ...

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 ...

While 2004 was the year of the integrated perimeter security device, experts said the coming year will focus on devices and software solutions that hinge upon some kind of prevention of threats such ...

This requirement applies to RIT-owned and leased computers. There is currently no requirement for personally-owned machines to run host intrusion prevention. Currently, personal networking devices ...

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 ...