Part of the legal responsibility of a business is to invest in the right technologies to protect client data. The act of implementing IDS/IPS is essential for proving compliance, and providing suitable security controls. Similarly, IDS and IPS can be configured for policy enforcement, to monitor and block traffic they don’t expect.
Significantly, IDS and IPS are critical for information security as they are two manners in which a system can be protected from an attack. They both play a vital role in automating cyber-security strategy. So, as much as IDS and IPS are similar, they form two different layers of network security and are both worth investment. This points to unified threat management (UTM). UTM incorporates several security layers into a single, comprehensive security resolution, so IDS and IPS would combine into one.
A UTM doesn’t just integrate IDS and IPS. UTMs expand upon the more traditional firewall approach to network safety, by incorporating both intrusion detection and prevention along with other security functions, into a single, unified appliance: a simple solution capable of filtering, analysing and reporting, along with load balancing and intrusion prevention.