• Compensating for weak or missing security mechanisms in the protection infrastructure, such as firewalls.
• Identification and authentication systems, link encryption systems, access control mechanisms, and virus.
• Detection and eradication software.
• Instantaneously detecting, reporting, and responding to an attack when there is a heavy network or processing.
• Load.
• Detecting newly published attacks or variants of existing attacks.
• Effectively responding to attacks launched by sophisticated attackers.
• Automatically investigating attacks without human intervention.
• Resisting all attacks that are intended to defeat or circumvent them.
• Compensating for problems with the fidelity of information sources.
• Dealing effectively with switched networks.
• Configuring an IDPS to respond accurately to perceived threats.