Security is an ongoing theatre of war where the latest vulnerabilities and digital invasions are continuously springing out from anywhere and anytime. Businesses are munched through security threats. The biggest challenge for safety purveyors and customers is to safeguard their machine vulnerabilities aimed by the latest attacks.



For the past two to three years, security suppliers and customers have changed their center from inert technologies like intrusion detection systems (IDS), firewalls, patch management systems and anti-virus systems to the potential hands-on intrusion prevention systems (IPS) that claims to defend application and system vulnerabilities prior to the exploits are released to aim at these vulnerabilities.





A zero day invasion is the unbeaten exploit of application vulnerability and network earlier than an anti-virus signature or a software patch for that beleaguered vulnerability is to be had. A zero day invasion could be the latest PC spyware, virus, worm. Trojan, rootkit, denial of service (DoS) attack or a pre-unidentified technique of invasion.



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