This potentially negative action makes the person responsible for security now responsible for loss in revenue should the IPS drop legitimate traffic. IPS actions include drop, reset, shun or custom scripted actions and all of this occurs immediately upon signature match. A huge concern is that an IPS can prevent business legitimate or revenue-generating traffic from occurring (an IPS, remember, can alter traffic flow). IPS and UTM, by their nature, must be inline and therefore can only see traffic entering and leaving an area. An IDS, therefore, could alert on a desktop machine attacking other desktop machines on the LAN, something the IPS or UTM would miss due to being inline.Īn IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) is an IDS in most regards, save for the fact it can take action inline on current traffic. IDS can passively monitor more than one segment and can monitor traffic that an IPS or UTM would never see, such as the traffic staying entirely within a LAN or DMZ. Unless you have unlimited resources, you may not be able to monitor everything on the network, so a key decision will be which traffic matters the most and which segment provides the best vantage point. Monitoring all of the traffic on an internal switch, like your LAN or a DMZ, will allow the IDS to monitor user activity or key servers, but it won’t see things happening on other parts of the network. One thing you don’t want to do is inspect traffic on the public side of the firewall. Monitoring traffic at the ingress/egress point will show you what comes and goes (after the firewall policy approves of course), but may not allow you to see remote offices connecting to core components. Not the location in the rack, but the segment of your network the IDS will monitor.
Just as they say in real estate: it’s location, location, location. What’s unusual? In the simplest terms, it’s traffic you don’t want on your network, whether that is policy/misuse (IM, Games, etc.) or the latest malware. What do I want to detect? For each network this answer will vary, though generally it is looking for unusual traffic. IDSĪn Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a tool that most obviously detects things but what things? Ultimately it could be anything, but thankfully most vendors include a large array of ‘signatures’ and or methods for detecting stuff. Everyone likes primers and simple descriptive definitions, so let’s jump right in with some thoughts.
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In our last webcast, we learned about lingering and general confusion over these crazy acronyms IDS and IPS, and how they are like or unlike UTM software modules.
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