The mathematics protecting communications since before the internet remain our strongest defense against machine-speed ...

Sourcefire’s open source IDS engine, Snort, has long been the gold standard of signature-based intrusion detection systems. Snort’s commercial sibling, Sourcefire 3D, takes Snort a step further by ...

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 ...

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 ...