Posts tagged Intrusion Detection

4 min Automation and Orchestration

Fine Tuning Your Intrusion Detection System to Minimize False Positive Alerts

Monitoring and protecting your company’s assets is one of the most important jobs you can perform. It can be tedious sometimes, but overall it can have the biggest impact to the business if compromised. Having alerts set up in your SIEM [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/siem/], IDS and FIM solutions [https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/file-integrity-monitoring/] can ultimately keep you on track. Eliminating false positive results can be a whole different story. Being able to pick out false pos

5 min Intrusion Detection

The Pros & Cons of Intrusion Detection Systems

Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) A network intrusion detection system (NIDS) can be an integral part of an organization’s security, but they are just one aspect of many in a cohesive and safe system. They have many great applications, but there are also weaknesses that need to be considered. It is important to compare an NIDS against the alternatives, as well as to understand the best ways to implement them. What Is an Intrusion Detection System? Intrusion detection systems [https://ww

1 min Automation and Orchestration

What are Networking Intrusion Prevention/Detection Systems?

NID(P)S, or Networking Intrusion (Prevention)/Detection Systems [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/intrusion-detection-and-prevention-systems-idps/] are used by a security team for general network security [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/what-is-network-security/] monitoring. They work by passively monitoring (or actively gating, in the NIPS case) network traffic and applying rules or signatures to trigger alerts. Advantages * Easy to deploy: Unlike endpoint devices, they can be placed