Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems. Intrusion detection ...

OSSEC (HIDS) is a free, open source host-base intrusion detection system. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting and ...

List of free intrusion detection and prevention software, system & tools for Windows - Snort, OSSEC for Enterprise use and WinPatrol for home use.

A host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) monitors and analyzes system configuration and application activity for devices running on the enterprise network.

GE Access signed a deal to distribute McAfee network and host-based intrusion-protection products from Network Associates.