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Guide to Intrusion Prevention Systems

There are different types of intrusion protection systems (IPS); those that deal with hardware, software, or network intrusion. Their focus is on how a program or software can enter these systems, and the ways to detect it. There are two main components in IPS. The first is to identify, or detect an intrusion, and the second is to prevent the intrusion from doing any harm. Some of those activities are taking actions such as dropping the malicious packets that were detected, sending an alarm, resetting the connection and/or blocking the traffic from the compromised IP address. This Bright Hub guide to intrusion protection systems will give readers a one-source location where they can access information about this topic.

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