What are the Advantages & Disadvantages of an Intrusion Detection System?
Identity theft is the fastest-growing white-collar crime in the United States. computer image by Ewe Degiampietro from Fotolia.com Intrusion detection systems for computers provide comprehensive defense against identity theft, information mining, and network hacking. Big businesses and government agencies employ such software to keep information and accounts safe as well as monitor the network activities of employees to ensure on-site facilities are not being misused. But for all the advantages, intrusion detection systems are hampered by an inability to tell malicious activity from accidental or lawful activity and may lock down a network causing loss of work and revenue. Constant Network Monitoring Intrusion detection systems constantly monitor a given computer network for invasion or abnormal activity. The advantage of this service is the “round-the-clock” aspect, in that the system is protected even while the user is asleep or otherwise away from any computer hooked up to the netwo
