Many intrusion prevention solutions have suffered from a high rate of false positives, causing some non-threatening traffic to be dropped. In early 2003, it acquired Okena, a small maker of intrusion prevention software for desktops, in a deal...
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.
So, Williams said, the answers are the same: guard the IP PBX with a firewall, an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and other products just as how a server is protected. When combined with best practices for mobile endpoints, including disabling...
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.
The Avaya manager declined to reveal which vendors were involved in security for the network this tournament - including provision of intrusion prevention and virus-scanning software. Traffic for the internet property fifaworldcup.com is expected...
It is also first blade server to use deep packet inspection software from CloudShield, the network services management and security company, IBM said. Along with the BladeCenter PN41, the main components of TISS are IBM Proventia Intrusion...