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IDS vs. IPS

IDS vs. IPS

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IDS vs. IPS

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- I've got a little network right here. So this yellow box is going to be my switch, and these individual little cylinders are going to be my host. And this guy right here is my connection to the internet. So he's just going to be at this moment, well just a router. Now, when we look at this network, it's really, really important to us that, well, we don't let naughty things happen to our network. So within the internet world, the first line of defense is going to be a firewall. And now the firewall's main job is to prevent naughty things from the outside world coming into our network. So traditionally a firewall is going to be right here. So that's why so many routers also have built-in firewall features. Now, a router doesn't have to have that. If we wanted to, we can go out and buy a specialized firewall device and now we can have our router and then our firewall as its own separate device. Barracuda, Pinnacle, a lot of people will sell you a box like this and this thing's being…

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