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What Is an Intrusion Prevention System – IPS? Definition and Benefits

Heimadal Security

The term IPS stands for Intrusion Prevention System and refers to a form of network security that aims to detect and prevent identified threats. An IPS system continuously monitors a network, looking for possible malicious activity and gathering information about it.

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CVE-2022-20685 flaw in the Modbus preprocessor of the Snort makes it unusable

Security Affairs

Snort is a free open source network intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) which is currently developed by Cisco. The software performs real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on Internet Protocol (IP) networks, protocol analysis, content searching and matching.

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4 Startups Driving Cybersecurity Innovation

Security Boulevard

Product categories such as intrusion prevention systems (IPS), anti-spam, unified threat intelligence (UTM), security information and event management (SIEM), next-generation firewall (NGFW), The post 4 Startups Driving Cybersecurity Innovation appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Why BYOD Is the Favored Ransomware Backdoor

eSecurity Planet

Installed antivirus, EDR, extended detection and response (XDR), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and next generation firewalls (NGFW) monitor endpoints and networks for signs of malicious activity – especially types of ransomware. These advanced tools can allow legitimate local encryption.

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McAfee NSP Provides Superior Security and Performance

McAfee

McAfee Enterprise is pleased to announce that the Network Security Platform (NSP), our industry leading next-gen Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solution, has been awarded Miercom Certified Secure for superior security and performance. Prevented 98.7% About Miercom. About the Testing. Key Findings.

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SocGholish: A Tale of FakeUpdates

Digital Shadows

Editor’s note: Dean Murphy , Brandon Tirado , and Joseph Morales all contributed to this blog. Just in January, we’ve identified and responded to two discrete “hands-on-keyboard” intrusions traced back to a SocGholish compromise. In these intrusions sets, the stage 3 sites were: *[.]signing[.]unitynotarypublic[.]com

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Iranian govt uses BouldSpy Android malware for internal surveillance operations

Security Affairs

The experts also pointed out the lack of maturity for the operational security employed by the operators, such as unencrypted C2 traffic, hardcoded plaintext C2 infrastructure details, a lack of string obfuscation, and failure to conceal or remove intrusion artifacts. The spyware can receive commands via C2 web traffic and via SMS messages.