Encyclopedia > IDS

Article Content

Intrusion-detection system

Redirected from IDS

An intrusion-detection system (IDS) is a software-based tool used to detect for crackers or other security breaches such as incoming shellcodes, viruses or trojan horses in a computer system or network.

Two main types of intrustion detection system exists:

host-based intrusion-detection system
network intrusion-detection system

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz

... midway between Erdmann and Gabler on the one hand, and the "extreme left" represented by Strauss, Feuerbach and Bruno Bauer. Of his numerous writings, the ...