NIDS
Encyclopedia
NIDS can refer to:
- National Institute for Discovery ScienceNational Institute for Discovery ScienceThe National Institute for Discovery Science was a privately financed research organization based in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.It was founded in 1995 by real-estate developer Robert Bigelow, who set it up to research and advance serious study of various fringe science, and paranormal topics, most...
- Network intrusion detection systemNetwork intrusion detection systemA Network Intrusion Detection System is an intrusion detection system that tries to detect malicious activity such as denial of service attacks, port scans or even attempts to crack into computers by Network Security Monitoring of network traffic.A NIDS reads all the incoming packets and tries to...
, a system that tries to detect malicious activity by monitoring network traffic