In this world of viruses, spyware, worms and bots, network intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS) have become an important asset to small and medium-sized businesses and enterprises that ...

We have a SonicWall firewall and would like to add intrusion detection to the network. The principal of the company is asking about options that sit between the firewall and network. The SonicWall ...

The risk of hacking attacks and network intrusions are facts of life for everyone who ventures online. Your system's firewall and its intrusion detection system both work to protect you against such ...

Given the never-ending headlines of recent years detailing enter­prise data breaches affecting hundreds of thousands of cus­tomers and involving losses in the billions, business leaders no longer have ...

Intrusion detection technology presents a confusing array of acronyms, abstract concepts, and hazy deliverables. This exacerbates the difficult situation for executives who are asked to pay for these ...

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 ...

What is the best threat management system for a business network? It's a difficult question to answer because threat management isn't about finding a single solution to every problem; it's about ...

The modern business should not only be looking at customer engagement strategy and how it improves the customer experience; they should also be looking at how to improve security and protect their ...

A variety of intrusion detection systems (IDS) are on the market, ranging from enterprise-level, managed network monitoring solutions to simple on-the-host logging systems. There is also a distinction ...

I am operating a small environment that has 7 or 8 basic security zones, with a Fortigate 60c sitting in the middle acting as traffic cop. I have noticed that even lightly loaded, the Fortigate seems ...