What is Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention?
Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention (Managed IDP/IDPS) is a fully managed service that continuously monitors your network and critical systems for malicious or suspicious activity—and can automatically block or contain threats in real time.
With DataComm Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention, we:
- Attackers continuously probe networks for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
- Encrypted and cloud-based traffic make it harder to see what’s really happening
- Security teams are overloaded with alerts and lack the time to fine-tune rules and policies
- Legacy IDS/IPS deployments often generate too many false positives—or miss important signals
Instead of tuning IDS/IPS appliances and rules on your own, you get a dedicated security team plus a modern detection and prevention platform delivered as a service.
Why do organizations choose Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention?
Modern environments face a constant stream of threats:
- Attackers continuously probe networks for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
- Encrypted and cloud-based traffic make it harder to see what’s really happening
- Security teams are overloaded with alerts and lack the time to fine-tune rules and policies
- Legacy IDS/IPS deployments often generate too many false positives—or miss important signals
Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention helps close these gaps by providing continuous visibility, expert tuning, and active blocking without requiring you to build a full-time internal team around it.
How DataComm Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention works
DataComm Managed IDP is built to give you deep visibility and fast protection with minimal operational overhead.
Discover & Design
We begin by understanding your environment and traffic flows:
- Identify critical networks, applications, and assets
- Determine optimal sensor placement (on-prem, data center, cloud, branch, remote access)
- Define policies and priorities aligned with your risk tolerance and business requirements
The outcome is a deployment and policy design that focuses on high-value coverage and realistic enforcement.
Deploy & Monitor
Next, we deploy and integrate the intrusion detection and prevention platform:
- Implement network and/or host-based sensors where needed
- Integrate with firewalls, VPNs, and other key infrastructure where appropriate
- Start collecting and analyzing traffic and event data 24/7
Our SOC continuously monitors for:
- Exploit attempts and vulnerability scanning
- Command-and-control beacons and suspicious outbound traffic
- Lateral movement and anomalous internal activity
- Policy violations and indicators of compromise
Detect, Alert & Block
When threats are detected, our platform and analysts respond:
- Apply signatures and behavioral analytics to identify malicious patterns
- Automatically block high-confidence threats inline (where configured)
- Generate prioritized alerts for events that require investigation
- Escalate validated incidents to your team with clear context and recommended actions
We can operate in:
- Detect-only mode for environments that require cautious adoption
- Detect-and-prevent mode for inline blocking of specific classes of threats
- Hybrid mode with different enforcement levels for different zones or applications
Tune, Optimize & Evolve
Intrusion detection and prevention is not a one-time setup—it’s an ongoing cycle:
- Regular tuning of signatures, rules, and policies to reduce noise
- Adjustments based on new threats, business changes, and lessons learned from incidents
- Periodic reviews to evaluate coverage, performance, and policy effectiveness
Over time, your security posture strengthens while operational friction decreases.
DataComm’s SecurShield platform provides comprehensive IDS/IPS capabilities, combining deep visibility, expert tuning, and 24/7 threat response in a single managed service.
Key capabilities of DataComm Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention
We’ve designed our service around four core pillars.
Deep visibility into network and host activity
DataComm Managed IDP provides visibility across:
- North-south traffic (internet and external connections)
- East-west traffic (internal segments, data center, and cloud networks)
- Critical applications and services
- Optional host-based intrusion detection for specific systems or servers
This helps uncover malicious behavior that might otherwise slip past perimeter-only controls.
Advanced threat detection
Our detection approach combines:
- Signature-based detection for known exploits, malware, and attack patterns
- Behavioral and anomaly-based analytics for unusual traffic or activity
- Threat intelligence feeds to stay current with attacker infrastructure and tactics
- Custom rules for your environment, applications, and regulatory requirements
This blend improves coverage against both known and emerging threats.
Policy-driven prevention and enforcement
We work with you to define and maintain prevention policies that make sense for your business:
- Inline blocking of clearly malicious traffic (e.g., exploit kits, known bad IPs, protocol abuses)
- Targeted restrictions in high-risk segments or systems
- Granular exception handling for legitimate but unusual traffic patterns
- Policy staging and testing to minimize disruption while increasing protection
The result is effective blocking without unnecessary downtime.
Operational relief for your team
DataComm Managed IDP reduces daily operational overhead:
- We handle deployment, tuning, rule updates, and health monitoring
- Our SOC triages and investigates events before they reach your team
- You get prioritized, contextual alerts and recommendations—not raw noise
- Your staff can focus on strategic security initiatives and higher-value projects
Optimize & evolve
We regularly review detections, false positives, and changes in your environment. Rules, signatures, and policies are updated so your protection stays aligned with new applications, projects, and threat trends.
What you get with DataComm Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention
A typical engagement includes:
Who is DataComm Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention for?
DataComm Managed IDP is a strong fit if:
- You need stronger network and host-level threat detection without building your own 24/7 team
- You operate hybrid environments (on-prem, cloud, remote) and want consistent visibility across them
- You’re required to implement intrusion detection/prevention capabilities for compliance or contractual reasons
- You have existing IDS/IPS tools but lack the time or expertise to tune, monitor, and manage them effectively
USE CASES
Explore the Possible Applications of IDS
Internet Edge Protection
Monitor and protect internet-facing gateways and services from:
- Exploit attempts against web apps, VPNs, and exposed services
- Reconnaissance scanning and brute-force attempts
- Known-bad IPs, domains, and malicious infrastructure
Internal Segmentation & Lateral Movement Detection
Place sensors between key internal segments to:
- Detect suspicious lateral movement between user networks, servers, and critical systems
- Catch policy violations, unauthorized access attempts, and internal scanning
- Reduce the ability of attackers or malware to move freely inside your network
Data Center & Cloud Workload Protection
Protect workloads in data centers and cloud environments by:
- Monitoring traffic between application tiers and services
- Identifying risky or unusual communication patterns
- Enforcing policies around allowed protocols and destinations
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Common questions
No. Firewalls primarily enforce access control and segmentation based on rules. Intrusion Detection and Prevention goes deeper, inspecting traffic for malicious patterns, exploits, and behaviors—even when traffic is allowed by firewall rules.
Yes. Many organizations start in detection-only mode to build trust and understanding. Once comfortable, they move specific policies or segments into prevention mode to actively block certain classes of threats.
Not always. In some cases we can leverage your existing IDS/IPS capabilities or next-generation firewalls. Where needed, we’ll recommend additional sensors or virtual appliances to achieve the coverage you want.
We can integrate with your SIEM/XDR to send enriched alerts and telemetry, or operate as a standalone managed service. Either way, our SOC handles tuning, investigation, and response for intrusion-related events.
Yes. Many frameworks and regulations expect or require intrusion detection/prevention capabilities. Managed IDP provides the monitoring, logs, and incident records you need to demonstrate due diligence.
Next steps
To tailor DataComm Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention to your organization, we recommend documenting:
- Your current network architecture (sites, data centers, cloud environments)
- Existing security controls (firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs, monitoring tools)
- Critical applications, data, and compliance requirements
Ready to harden your network against active threats?
Schedule a Managed Intrusion Detection and Prevention strategy session with DataComm to map out coverage, implementation options, and a rollout plan that fits your organization.