Any corporate network is under constant threat of attack. Increasingly the purpose of the attack is theft of intellectual property or financial fraud. The purpose of intrusion detection is to identify any suspicious or malicious attempts to enter an organisation's network and ensure that legitimate alerts are notified immediately for the appropriate corrective action to be implemented.

Symantec^TM Monitored and Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS) Services offer real-time protection from attack and enable companies to reduce their overall security risk. Symantec's Security Operations Center technology platform combines real-time security alerts from a customer's network with global intelligence information about security threat activity to support fast and accurate analysis of customer security data. This system enables Symantec security analysts to quickly identify activity from known and emerging security threats, notify customers, and provide recommendations for defence and protection before damage occurs.

Monitored network-based and host-based intrusion detection and intrusion prevention services:

• The Advantages of Real-time Security Monitoring. Customers are provided with constant security monitoring, intelligence, and analysis of their intrusion detection technology while maintaining internal control over configuration and performance management of IDS/IPS and IDS/IPS management consoles.

Monitored and managed network-based intrusion detection and intrusion protection service:

• Gain Real-time Security and Maintain Control. Customers enjoy the advantages of constant security monitoring, analysis, and global intelligence in addition to configuration, performance, and fault management of IDS/IPS management consoles and IDS/IPS Sensors. IPS services' customers have the flexibility to customize prevention baselines for each device when implementing IPS "blocking" policies. (Depending upon the service level purchased).