Intrusion Detection Software Security 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.

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.

This latest batch of IPS and IDS evasion techniques is in addition to the 120 Stonesoft discovered in February, and the 23 it found in October 2010.

The multi-threaded Suricata IDS/IPS application, version 1.4.0, was ported using Tilera's Multicore Development Environment (MDE) version 4.1, a full-featured and standards based run-time Linux ...