We have a SonicWall firewall and would like to add intrusion detection to the network. The principal of the company is asking about options that sit between the firewall and network. The SonicWall ...

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 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 ...

Intrusion detection technology presents a confusing array of acronyms, abstract concepts, and hazy deliverables. This exacerbates the difficult situation for executives who are asked to pay for these ...

Security advances push intrusion detection deeper into the network, relegating its role to forensics investigation and internal monitoring. Drowning in signature libraries and reactive event ...

What is the best threat management system for a business network? It's a difficult question to answer because threat management isn't about finding a single solution to every problem; it's about ...

If a firewall is like having a security guard at your office door, checking the credentials of everyone coming and going, then an intrusion-detection system (IDS) is like having a network of sensors ...

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I am operating a small environment that has 7 or 8 basic security zones, with a Fortigate 60c sitting in the middle acting as traffic cop. I have noticed that even lightly loaded, the Fortigate seems ...

The product life-cycle management project I mentioned in my last article has been quiet as the project management team evaluates everyone’s input to the evaluation documentation. I’m taking this ...