Gov worker visits 9k porn sites without protection, spreads infection

A now very “ex”-government employee provides a teachable moment. Continue reading Gov worker visits 9k porn sites without protection, spreads infection

Should I block IP adresses that made attacks attempts and were block from an IPS through the rules?

We have an NIPS blocking attacks based on bad behaviors (rules checking the data in the network packets). Should I block the IP that the NIPS linked to attack attempts? It feels like the NIPS is already blocking the attack.

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Why would IPS vendor provider refuse to publish SLAs to fix the published highly ranked CVEs?

One of the biggest IPS providers (top of Gartner graph for its category) is not providing SLAs for all the 7+ ranking CVEs published last year. I don’t really understand why would they refuse to provide SLAs for the published… Continue reading Why would IPS vendor provider refuse to publish SLAs to fix the published highly ranked CVEs?

How likely is it to see a commercial IDS/IPS that uses machine learning in the near future that performs better than a normal IDS/IPS? [on hold]

I have to choose a field to study on and I want to know does it worth studying in this field and will the future IDS/IPS systems be using machine-learning/deep-learning or at least how likely is it?

i heard that some compan… Continue reading How likely is it to see a commercial IDS/IPS that uses machine learning in the near future that performs better than a normal IDS/IPS? [on hold]