The Ins and Outs of IPS - Intrusion Prevention System

Published: 07th September 2006
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When it comes to protecting your network from attacks a good IPS (intruder prevention system) is needed. Be warned that many intrusion detection systems will try to pass them selves off as an IPS, even when they do not offer all the services of the


There are two kinds of IPS's, one is called HIPS and the other it called NIPS. HIPS is an acronym which stands for Host Based Intrusion Prevention System. NIPS is an acronym which stands for Network Based Intrusion Prevention System. A host based IPS is usually software based and needs to be installed on every computer connected to the network. A network based

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