What IDS, IPS, and HIDS mean and why do I care. Intrusion detection technology presents a confusing array of acronyms, abstract concepts, and hazy deliverables.

IPS is selling better than IDS, confirms Clarence Morey, senior manager for product strategy at ISS, adding IPS is often preferred for the most mission-critical networks.

During 2007, several IDS/IPS engines have been observed to miss or “leak” exploits that were once caught, even though the IDS/IPS purportedly had the necessary signatures.

The complicating factors that prompted a technology analyst to label the market as obsolete 14 years ago still persist today; it remains a rallying cry for greater security innovation.

Even Snort, the freely available IDS, has its own term, “Snort inline,” for what is essentially intrusion prevention. My reasoning for moving to IPS is pretty straightforward.

6. Make sure your IDS or IPS can provide the views of alert and forensic information you require and can assign different levels of importance to alerts. 7.

Bricata offers advanced IPS/IDS protection, but also goes a step farther, adding the ability to launch threat hunts based on events, or simply anomalies.

Peraton Labs Inc., Basking Ridge, New Jersey, is awarded a $9,201,033 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the nonrecurring engineering, development, production, testing and integration of 1553 Data Bus ...