Designed to fill the gap left by expensive, heavy-duty network intrusion detection systems, Snort is a free, cross-platform packet sniffer, logger, and intrusion detector for monitoring smaller TCP/IP ...

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.

Sourcefire this week is expected to announce add-on software called Intrusion Agent for its intrusion-detection system freeware Snort. The add-on will let the freeware version of Snort work with ...

The Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are primarily designed to protect the availability, confidentiality and integrity of critical network information systems.

Intrusions Detection Systems (IDSs) are designed to handle attacks but many Intrusion Detection System (IDS) are designed for specific attack/attacks. It is evident that no single technique can ...

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 ...

If you don’t have a lot of budget at your disposal, these open-source intrusion detection tools are worth a look.

A new vulnerability in Snort, an open source intrusion-detection system, enables hackers to inject hostile code into exposed systems. Sourcefire, the company behind the Snort package, said hackers ...

Need extra network protection to shore up your defences? Read our review of six intrusion detection (IDS) and prevention systems (IPS).