Everyone should employ an intrusion detection system (IDS) to monitor their network and flag any suspicious activity or automatically shut down potentially malicious traffic. We look at five of the ...

Putting in technical safeguards to spot network intruders or detect denial-of-service attacks at e-commerce servers is a prudent idea. But if your staff doesn’t have the time or skills to install and ...

Check Point, which has a lot to do with VPNs, is buying Sourcefire, which has almost nothing to do with VPNs, but does make intrusion-detection software based on Snort open source code. This is part ...

Top 6 IDS/IPS tools — plus 4 open-source alternatives An intrusion detection or prevention system can mean the difference between a safe network and a nasty breach. We've rounded up some of the best ...

Cyber security expert: Internet of things is 'scary as hell' Jerry Irvine, member of the National Cybersecurity Partnership, talks about IoT security, the connected home, and why consumers and ...