What Is An Intrusion Prevention Solution?
There are many products and tools on the market today that use the “prevention” moniker. The right intrusion prevention solution includes enabling you to circumvent the need for analysis to be done before action can be taken to protect the system. In addition, it prevents attacks from doing damage to your operating system, applications and data. By using a system to proactively prevent attacks, there is no gap between the attack being detected, identifying it as an attack, and finally doing something to prevent it. In addition, intrusion prevention helps enterprises get better control of the costly and time-consuming process of installing software patches to plug vulnerabilities in operating systems and applications and to fend off attacks like worms and buffer overflows. How do you choose the right type of solution for your organization? This checklist should serve as the building blocks to choosing the right enterprise intrusion prevention solution for your organization. Table 1. Int
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