Intrusion prevention and active response : deploying network and host IPS / Michael Rash [and others] ; technical reviewer, Anne Henmi. - Rockland, Mass. : Syngress Pub., ©2005. - 1 online resource (xx, 402 pages) : illustrations

Includes index.

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Intrusion Prevention and Active Response; Packet Inspection for Intrusion Analysis; False Positives and Real Damage; Four Layers of IPS Actions; Network Inline Data Modification; Protecting Your Host Through the Operating System; IPS at the Application Layer; Deploying Open Source IPS Solutions; IPS Evasion Techniques (Network); Index; Related Titles.

Within a year of the infamous "Intrusion Detection is Dead" report by Gartner, we started seeing Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) products that actually worked in the real world. Security professionals are going to be approaching management for funding in the next year or two to procure intrusion prevention devices, especially Intelligent switches from 3Com (TippingPoint), as well as host-based intrusion prevention solutions like Cisco Security Agent, Platform Logic, Ozone or CrossTec. Both managers and security technologists face a pressing need to get up to speed, and fast, on the commercia.

1597490342 9781597490344 9780080489292 008048929X


Computer security.
Computer networks--Security measures.
Computer networks--Access control.
COMPUTERS--Internet--Security.
COMPUTERS--Networking--Security.
COMPUTERS--Security--General.
Computer networks--Access control.
Computer networks--Security measures.
Computer security.


Electronic books.

QA76.9.A25 / I368 2005eb