What are Host-based Intrusion Prevention Systems (HIPS)?
Host-based Intrusion Prevention Systems is a term used to describe a class of software that is designed to prevent attacks against a single computer. Such attacks can include proactive exploitation, viruses, and other malicious mediums which have the intention of gaining unauthorized access to a machine. HIPS products run on the machine that they are protecting rather than as an entity between the machines that are being protected, such as would be the case with a firewall or IDS device.
