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Yuri Diogenes
Yuri Diogenes
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Yuri Diogenes

Yuri Diogenes is a professor at EC-Council University for their BSc in Cybersecurity and a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft for Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Yuri has an MSc in Cybersecurity from UTICA College, PhD student in the Cybersecurity Leadership program at Capitol Technology University, and an MBA from FGV Brazil. He currently holds the following certifications: CISSP, CyberSec First Responder, MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence, CompTIA CySa+, E-CEH, E-CSA, E-CHFI, E-CND, CompTIA, Security+, Network+ and CASP. He has published over 27 books, mostly on information security.
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is named among the Top 50 Technology Leaders by CIO Online & IDC. He is a Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and CISO at Xcitium (Comodo Cybersecurity), and a professor at Charles Sturt University. His expertise spans end-to-end IT solutions, management, communications, and innovation. He’s a well-known public speaker, an award-winning technical expert, author, and creator of certifications (courseware and exams) for prestigious organizations such as Microsoft, EC Council, CertNexus, and other expert-level vendors with an esteemed list of credits to his name. He is working with an ardent passion for raising cyber awareness and leveraging new, innovative approaches.
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Intrusion prevention system

An intrusion prevention system (IPS) uses the same concept as an IDS, but, as the name says, it prevents the intrusion by taking corrective action. This action will be customized by the IPS administrator in partnership with the Blue Team.

In the same way IDS is available for hosts (HIDS) and network (NIDS), IPS is also available for both, as HIPS and NIPS. The NIPS placement within your network is critical and the same guidelines that were previously mentioned are applicable here. You should also consider placing the NIPS inline with traffic in order to be able to take corrective action. IPS and IDS detections can usually operate in one or both of the following modes:

  • Rule-based
  • Anomaly-based

Rule-based detection

While operating this mode, the IPS will compare the traffic with a set of rules and try to verify whether the traffic matches the rule. This is very useful when you need to deploy a new rule to block an attempt...

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Yuri Diogenes

Yuri Diogenes is a professor at EC-Council University for their BSc in Cybersecurity and a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft for Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Yuri has an MSc in Cybersecurity from UTICA College, PhD student in the Cybersecurity Leadership program at Capitol Technology University, and an MBA from FGV Brazil. He currently holds the following certifications: CISSP, CyberSec First Responder, MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence, CompTIA CySa+, E-CEH, E-CSA, E-CHFI, E-CND, CompTIA, Security+, Network+ and CASP. He has published over 27 books, mostly on information security.
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is named among the Top 50 Technology Leaders by CIO Online & IDC. He is a Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and CISO at Xcitium (Comodo Cybersecurity), and a professor at Charles Sturt University. His expertise spans end-to-end IT solutions, management, communications, and innovation. He’s a well-known public speaker, an award-winning technical expert, author, and creator of certifications (courseware and exams) for prestigious organizations such as Microsoft, EC Council, CertNexus, and other expert-level vendors with an esteemed list of credits to his name. He is working with an ardent passion for raising cyber awareness and leveraging new, innovative approaches.
Read more about Dr. Erdal Ozkaya