IDS or IPS: what is best?

✍ Scribed by Maria Papadaki; Steven Furnell

• Book ID: 104392038
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Volume: 2004
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1353-4858
• DOI: 10.1016/s1353-4858(04)00106-0

✦ Synopsis

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) have become one of the most common countermeasures in the network security arsenal. But while other technologies such as firewalls and anti-virus provide proactive protection, most current IDSs are passive; detection of a suspected intrusion typically triggers a manual response from a system administrator. Too often, this comes too late.