Chapter 7. Intrusion Detection Systems
Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) represent a sophisticated concept that involves a variety of technologies. What is safe to say is that IDSs are becoming as essential to network security as the firewall, and, in fact, many of the distinctions between an IDS and a firewall are blurring.
We'll cover the following topics in this chapter:
IDS types
NIDS limitations
Host-based NIDS
NIDS fusion
Snort: a popular NIDS
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