Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems. Intrusion detection systems ...

The risk of hacking attacks and network intrusions are facts of life for everyone who ventures online. Your system's firewall and its intrusion detection system both work to protect you against such ...

Whenever a company connects its network to the Internet, it opens up a whole can of worms regarding security. As the network grows, it will play host to numerous bugs and security loopholes of which ...

A variety of intrusion detection systems (IDS) are on the market, ranging from enterprise-level, managed network monitoring solutions to simple on-the-host logging systems. There is also a distinction ...

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and anomaly detection techniques underpin modern cybersecurity by autonomously monitoring network activities and flagging deviations from normal behaviour. IDS are ...

A study published in The Journal of Engineering Research at Sultan Qaboos University presents an advanced intrusion detection system (IDS) designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of ...

Firewalls are so 2000s. With your "office" now scattered over homes everywhere, you need a new way of protecting your office from network threats and that's IDSs. It used to be so easy. Everything ...

The internet is a scary place, and since building my own OPNsense router where I can see all of the traffic in and out, I've never been more convinced of that. I had already set up OPNsense with the ...

In our tests of five leading network intrusion-detection systems and the popular open source Snort, performance was spotty during baseline testing and degraded by as much as 50% on some products when ...