Stories about: IPS

Fortinet has announced availability of a new FortiGate unified threat management device that will eventually replace an older model for midsize businesses.

Cisco's the king of network security, commanding almost a quarter share of the worldwide US$6.8 billion network security market, according to IDC. But can it hold the fort?

Despite some shortcomings, software-based network access control technology that enforces policies on network endpoints is often the first choice of customers who adopt the technology.

McAfee is hunkering down to integrate the security technologies it has bought over the past several months into its varied line of security software and appliances. Two trends in the company's activities are developing parallel products for deployment as software on endpoints and as network-based appliances. This week, for instance, the company is announcing that NAC software can be installed on its IntruShield IPS appliance to give customers the option of enforcing NAC policies in the network, not just on the endpoint. The company is bringing management of these platforms under control of its ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) in an effort to centralize control of network security. Network World Senior Editor Tim Greene spoke with McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt about these efforts as well as other issues facing the company.

McAfee is making it possible for customers to enforce network access policies on unmanaged devices such as laptops owned by visitors or consultants.

In terms of malicious insiders committing fraud, can anything "really" be done?

IBM last week offered a sneak peek at what it says will address security issues in the virtualization world by early next year.

Australia's peak body for patent and trademark attorneys is offering inventors a free initial IP consultation.

Network-based intrusion-prevention systems are in-line devices intended to detect and block a wide variety of attacks, but the equipment still is often used more like an intrusion-detection system to passively monitor traffic, new research shows.

What Japan lacks in geographic size, it more than makes up for in Internet attack traffic.

TippingPoint is beta-testing a Web portal that lets customers view Internet-threat intelligence the company has gathered from around the globe, as well as polls of how other customers are dealing with those threats.