Intrusion Detection (IDS) & Intrusion Prevention (IPS)

• How well are you protected from unknown zero-day attacks?
• Do you waste time managing multiple security applications?
• Are you protected from mobile user vulnerabilities?
• How do you handle the window of time between when a vulnerability is announced & when it is being exploited?

With a plethora of vulnerabilities out there, security administrators need to constantly mitigate the risks associated with the ever changing environments and applications being introduced. Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) are an invaluable tool, and are becoming more of a necessity in any and all environments. Even with today's firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and other network protection we implement, hosts are still vulnerable to myriad attacks through all the different vectors.

To mitigate risks and thereby reduce threats, information security needs to be based on a layering affect of technologies which provide you with an umbrella of protection. The introduction of intrusion prevention systems (IPS) offers one more layer.

Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) protect hosts from the network layer all the way up to the application layer, against known and unknown malicious attacks.

Although IPS are actually the next generation IDS, there will always be a need to keep these technologies separate in order to allow depth in overall protection; thus, firewalls will need IDS, and the network will need IPS. Each technology is bound to each other with dependencies that will not disappear.

Any single technology represents a singular point of failure and results in too much risk. Employing the different technologies in concert brings risk exposure to threats down to acceptable levels. In addition, combining multiple host protection technologies into a single host protection solution significantly reduces management costs. When developing a host protection strategy, only a comprehensive solution will keep you ahead of the next threat.

Targeted attacks require a more granular approach to applying security controls. Let us show you ways to survive when your organization becomes a cybercriminal's next target.

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