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IPS

Intrusion Prevention System. A network security tool that monitors traffic and actively blocks or prevents detected threats in real time, going beyond passive detection.

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Firewall IDS VPN DMZ NAC VLAN Subnet Packet Sniffing ARP Spoofing DNS Spoofing MITM Attack DDoS
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