Nirav Shah, senior director of products and solutions at Fortinet, notes that intrusion detection systems “monitor network traffic searching for suspicious activity and known threats, sending up ...

and report any suspicious activity to administrators. Many systems in the intrusion detection system market also include intrusion prevention capabilities to protect against malicious attacks.

Enterprise IT departments deploy intrusion detection systems to gain ... traffic moving on networks and through systems to search for suspicious activity and known threats, sending up alerts ...