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A passive security result which is specifically manufactured and in designed in order to surveillance every network traffic both inbound and out bound is called intrusion detection system (IDS). The main function of thus IDS is to monitor, identify and notify the unauthorized and unauthenticated network activities which tried to break the system security or try to make compromise with the systems. This is considered to be passive because, it just keeps the users alerted on the suspicious accessibility over the system and will not protect the system from them. It continuously monitors the network traffic and analyses the problems, exploits and all other vulnerabilities. It normally reacts to the unauthorized events in more than one ways. It could be by popping up the alerts on window, informing the system administrators and even logging these events.

Intrusion detection system has at times change and re-configures the system network in order to decrease the authentications from suspicious intrusions. It also identifies and alerts the events happening because of computer infestation from virus, hackers and other worms. This is the result of focusing on authorized intrusion signatures and also attack signatures. These signatures are monitored for different virus and worms; make a note of general difference that are varied from their normal activities. IDS can be procured for free as they are distributed under open source program which also offers security to several costlier supplier software appliances. They also protect the sensor electronic devices that are usually installed at every different stag of network. IDS are characterized based on their functionalities. First and foremost functionality is their detection based on host and the network, detection based on irregularity and misuse, and the other is based on the systems which are reactive and also passive in nature.

When an Intrusion detection system is based on the network is just the standalone device hardware. Here the hardware will have all the capabilities similar to IDS. At various network points’ locations, they will have few hardware sensors, which is integrated with the system and its network connected. It continuously monitors all the data packets that is inbound and out bound to the system network. IDS aren’t providing real time security detection; however, they offer the genuine detection when they are configured without faults. The IDS installed on the every individual computer are all the software agents which are basically host based. They monitor both in bound and out bound network traffic of specific computers. Also, host based IDS are all characterized to be specific and not get into any other IDS which are network based.

When intrusion detection system detection is based on misuse or unauthorized suspicious events, then the IDS collects all the required information and compares it with the attack signatures of large data base. It detects the virus attacks and it is similar to the intrusion data base signatures which are used to compare against the data packets. The analyzing detectors usually monitor the each segment of network and compare them to the normal baselines.