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Understand how intrusion prevention systems (IPS) use attack signatures

Overview This sample chapter, taken from Intrusion Prevention Fundamentals, examines signature types, signature triggers, and signature actions.

Learn how IPS devices use signatures to identify activity in your network traffic and on hosts on your network.

This sample chapter, taken from Intrusion Prevention Fundamentals, discusses signature characteristics, signature types, and the relationship between base signature types and triggering mechanisms.

Title: Intrusion Prevention Fundamentals
ISBN: 1587052393
Published: January 2006
Author: Earl Carter, Jonathan Hogue
Chapter: Chapter 2: Signatures and Actions
Published by Cisco Press

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Further White Paper Details
Publisher	TechRepublic	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2006	Downloads	107
Format	Downloads
Topics	Security Management, Network Security, Intrusion Detection Systems

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