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 ...

A new release of AirDefense’s wireless intrusion prevention and detection software features a major user-interface redesign, big boost in speed, and greatly expanded reporting tool. A new release of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The announcement comes just two days after Network Associates, based here, unveiled a deal to buy IntruVert Networks, a maker of network-based intrusion-detection appliances, for $100 million in cash.

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 ...