por Do you know what HIDS are and what they are used for in cybersecurity?
The Blue Team, which is in charge of protecting a computer system, must apply security measures to each of the elements that make it up. The challenge for this team of experts is to protect the entire attack surface of a systemwhile malicious hackers only need to find a flaw (often small) to deploy a whole series of harmful actions for a network, device, application and/or its users.
To apply security measures that are articulated among themselves and, in addition, allow for centralized and efficient monitoring of information, the Blue Team must carry out this process in layers. That is to say, the protection of a system is dividedbroadly speaking, in:
The defense of the network. The defense of the device. The defense of applications. The defense of data. The defense of cloud storage.
Although other measures are added to this, such as the automated management of security policies, in this post we will focus on explaining tools for monitoring network traffic. Next, We will see what HIDS are and what they are used for in cybersecurity.
What are HIDS?
HIDS (Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems) are software to detect and eliminate network intrusions that are installed directly on users’ computers. Therefore, they are tools that specifically serve to scan information about the device and not the network in general. With HIDS, computers are the ones that process all the information collected and then send it to a centralized location.
An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is used to monitor and create alerts about the security status of a network. To do this, all traffic (that is, data packets) is analyzed for anomalies. The method used to detect intrusions is based on behavioral rules, which can also be automated, and this is how security breaches affecting networks are discovered.
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