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What is an IDPS or Intrusion Detection and Prevention System?

CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA, Data Breaches and Prevention, DoS and DDoS Prevention, End Point Protection, Information Security, Malware Prevention, Network Security, Security Fundamentals

What is an IDPS or Intrusion Detection and Prevention System? An Intrusion Prevention System or IPS, also known as an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System or IDPS is a network security appliance that monitors network and system activities and detects possible...

What is an IDS or Intrusion Detection System and how does it work?

CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA, Data Breaches and Prevention, DoS and DDoS Prevention, End Point Protection, Information Security, Malware Prevention, Network Security, Security Fundamentals

What is an IDS or Intrusion Detection System? An Intrusion Detection System or IDS is a device or software application that monitors network or system activities and sends alerts to system administrators at the proper time. IDS monitors both inbound and outbound...

What are Ping Flood and Ping of Death attacks?

CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA, DoS and DDoS Prevention, Firewall, Most Common Vulnerabilities, Network Security, Securing Authentication, Security Fundamentals

Ping Flood and Ping of Death are two commonly perpetrated DoS or Denial of Service Attacks. What are they actually and how to prevent them? Let's understand that in more detail. What is Ping Flood? Ping Flood is a Denial of Service Attack. In this attack, the attacker...

What is the Smurf attack?

CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA, DoS and DDoS Prevention, Network Security, Security Fundamentals

What is the Smurf attack? The Smurf attack is a Denial of Service or DoS attack, which can make a system inaccessible completely. In Smurf Attack, an attacker creates lots of ICMP packets with the target victim's IP address as source IP and broadcasts those packets in...

What is IP address spoofing?

CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA, Data Breaches and Prevention, DoS and DDoS Prevention, Malware Prevention, Network Security, Security Fundamentals

What is IP address spoofing? In Computer Networking, IP address spoofing or IP spoofing is the creation of IP packets with a forged source IP address. This is often done for the purpose of concealing the identity of the sender or impersonating another computing...