The current state of Intrusion Detection Systems(IDS) would have to be considered fairly mature. The market for IDS and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) is a large percentage of the $14 billion security software[1] industry with dozens of vendors and service providers worldwide.

The functionality provided by these systems can be broken down into three broad categories:

Perimeter control

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