A new release of AirDefense’s wireless intrusion prevention and detection software features a major user-interface redesign, big boost in speed, and greatly expanded reporting tool.

NetScreen Technologies is upgrading its intrusion-detection software so it also gathers and parses data about network traffic to reduce false intrusion alarms and pin down sources of network attacks.

An IDS, or an intrusion detection system, is a popular security tool that scans a network 24/7 and alerts you the moment it detects something fishy like unauthorized devices attempting to connect ...

The InfoWorld Test Center evaluates network intrusion detection systems from ISS, Lancope, Snort, and StillSecure ...

No security topic generates more spirited debate than intrusion prevention. Deployed on the edge — and increasingly, deep inside — the network, IPSes (intrusion prevention systems) purport to ...

An intrusion detection service must be customized to protect a company’s internal applications such as accounts payable so its security software can defend against any attacks on that application.

Network Associates plans to release this week a network-based intrusion-detection and -prevention appliance aimed at midsize companies and enterprise branch offices.

The task of securing those applications is often left to others — traditionally, systems administrators who can wield firewalls, intrusion-detection software and other weapons at the network ...

By selling its 4Shadow product through the Mac App Store, the solution provider is finding a new route to market for its intellectual property.