The Role of Intrusion Detection Systems

An intrusion detection system (IDS) is an application or device used to gather and analyzev information that passes across a network or host. An IDS is designed to analyze, identify, and report on any violations or misuse of a network or host. Let’s take a close look at how an IDS works. An IDS is … Read more

Analyzing the Application

Enumerating as much of the application’s content as possible is only one element of the mapping process. Equally important is the task of analyzing the application’s functionality, behavior, and technologies employed, in order to identify the key attack surfaces that it exposes, and begin formulating an approach to probing the application for exploitable vulnerabilities. Some … Read more