At the highest level, there are two types of intrusion detection systems: network-based and host-based. “Network-based intrusion detection systems monitor activity within network traffic for one or ...

To address this shortcoming, some intrusion detection systems look for any network activity that lies outside a certain prescribed range of “safe” activities, an approach known as anomaly ...

An IDS monitors network traffic searching for suspicious activity and known threats, sending up alerts when it finds such items. A longtime corporate cyber security staple, intrusion detection as ...