To prevent this type of malware from attacking, companies should have both intrusion detection and firewalls as part of their security strategy, not just anti-virus software. He said: "I suspect Simon may be trying to push CA's firewall/intrusion...
But security solutions such as VPNs, firewalls and intrusion detection systems do not protect the applications. Each application is always unique which makes them vulnerable," he said. He said: "Most companies are aware of the traditional hacker...
The House of Commons is also looking to buy an intrusion prevention system (IPS) - a combination of intrusion detection software and a firewall - to reduce the risk of denial of service attacks, virus outbreaks and Trojans.
When combined with best practices for mobile endpoints, including disabling file and print sharing, and running personal firewalls, antivirus and intrusion prevention systems, there is no good reason to stop mobile workers from using hotspots, he...
At the call control level, King argues that Cisco's Call Manager application is protected with intrusion prevention software, and serves as a secure control hub for the IP phones. And moving telephony to an IP network makes it vulnerable to...
Check Point is to spend $225m buying Sourcefire, the company behind the open source intrusion prevention tool Snort. Intrusion prevention systems such as Snort are meant to stop hackers from entering a network.