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During Network World’s recent Security Technology Tour, we received a lot of questions about intrusion-prevention systems. The problem is that there is little agreement on what an IPS really is.

An intrusion prevention system (IPS) includes all the features of an intrusion detection system but also has the ability to act upon malicious traffic. Since the IPS usually sits in line with ...