What is IPS?
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) are tools to prevent sophisticated kinds of attacks on the network. IPS tools detect such attack by keeping eye on trends, looking for attacks that use particular patterns of messages, and other factors. IPS tools sit in the packet’s forwarding path and then rate and report each potential threat by analyzing the traffic. The IPS tools have the ability to react and filter the traffic.
IPS, or integrated power systems, is simply a method of ensuring that the power supply needed to keep a place of business functional in the event of a problem with the primary source of energy. With so many of our home and work environments dependent on a steady supply of power, it is no wonder that the concept of IPS has gone from being a good idea to an essential. Here is some background on the concept of IPS and how many companies choose to implement their backup power supply procedures these days. IPS plans and procedures are nothing new. As far back as the 1940’s, manufacturing facilities relied on backup power stations that could be run with gas generators in the event of a massive power failure. Hospitals also have operated with a full-fledged disaster recovery program that would ensure power to all vital functions, such as oxygen for the patients and enough power to keep operating rooms going in a crisis. What is different today is that IPS strategies have become more sophistic
