With everyone talking about the billions of dollars' worth of damage caused by the Code Red worms, I got to thinking about security for my little old PC at home. I've been meaning to install a ...

Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems. Intrusion detection systems ...

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and anomaly detection techniques underpin modern cybersecurity by autonomously monitoring network activities and flagging deviations from normal behaviour. IDS are ...

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 ...

Finnish security firm Stonesoft claims to have developed 163 new attack methods that can evade network intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) over multiple communication protocols including ...

Enterprise IT departments deploy intrusion detection systems to gain visibility into potentially malicious activities happening within their technology environments. A longtime corporate cyber ...

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 ...