IDS and IPS essential to cybersecurity

Security teams face an increasing threat from data breaches and compliance fines while continuing to struggle with budget constraints and corporate policies. IDS / IPS technology covers specific and important jobs in a cybersecurity strategy:

Automation: IDS / IPS systems largely do not require human intervention, making them ideal candidates for use in the current security stack. IPS provides peace of mind that the network is protected from known threats with limited resource requirements

Compliance: Part of compliance generally requires that you have invested in technologies and systems to protect data. The implementation of an IDS / IPS solution checks the compliance sheet and addresses several CIS security controls. Most importantly, audit data is a valuable part of compliance investigations.

Policy enforcement: IDS / IPS is configurable to help enforce internal security policies at the network level. For example, if you only support one VPN, you can use IPS to block other VPN traffic.
While network security is essential to protect against data breaches - and IDS / IPS solutions fulfill this role perfectly - Varonis DatAlert monitors data activity in real-time and complements IDS / IPS. The solution not only includes signature-based ransomware detection but also recognizes the characteristics and behavior of an attack.