“Network-based intrusion detection systems monitor activity within network traffic for one or more networks, while host-based intrusion detection systems monitor activity within a single host, like a ...

Network-based intrusion-detection systems (IDS) are an integral component of a layered IT security strategy. As October is National Cyber Awareness Month, if your overall security system doesn’t ...

These come in two varieties. The first, network-based intrusion detection systems (NIDS), live on the network. Specifically, they watch incoming and outgoing network traffic.

Intrusion detection systems work in a number of ways. A network-based IDS relies on network sensors that monitor packets as they go by. Typically, a network-based IDS comprises sensors at network ...

In our tests of five leading network intrusion-detection systems and the popular open source Snort, performance was spotty during baseline testing and degraded by as much as 50% on some products ...

OSSEC (HIDS) is a free, open source host-base intrusion detection system. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting and ...