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Gartner Report: Understanding the Nine Protection Styles of Host-Based Intrusion Prevention

Overview This report by Neil MacDonald takes a look at the technologies available today for intrusion prevention. "The time for a more complete approach to host-based intrusion prevention is here. Traditional antivirus and personal firewall solutions are no longer sufficient to protect endpoint systems against targeted application-level attacks, and we can't keep our systems patched as quickly as new vulnerabilities are announced."

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Sana Security	File Format	HTML
Date Published	July 2005	Downloads	7
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls, Security Management, Network Security, Security Tools, Security Applications, Intrusion Detection Systems, Security Standards, Best Practices

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Security Strategy
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hacker

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Windows flaw could hit enterprise systems

The note, written by analysts Amrit Williams, Jay Heiser and Neil MacDonald, said URL filtering products should be activated and inline network intrusion prevention systems, antivirus and anti-spyware tools should be updated with the latest...

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Because VoIP is now just another application that runs on a commercial operating system, it needs to be patched regularly along with the rest of the IT estate. Additional tools that will help networks in case of any attack are intrusion detection...

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