What is IPS?
By Prempal Singh
Intrusion Prevention System is a software or hardware system for network and computer security that detects intrusions or security breaches and automatically protects against them can be seen as an extension of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) since the task of tracking attacks remains the same. However, they differ in that with. n. in. should track real-time activity and quickly implement attack prevention actions. Possible measures are blocking traffic flows in the network, dropping connections, and issuing signals to the operator. Also, with. n. in. can perform packet defragmentation, reordering TCP packets to protect against packets with modified SEQ and ACKnumbers.