Question & Answer: Discuss the importance of updating or upgrading an IDPS, and note what steps may nee…..

The importance of updating an IDPS is listed below

.prevents from threats, vulnerabilities and intrusions

Intrusion detection and prevention system experimental consideration

if we update idps we are having mastery over the network probes and the

logs analysis

creating rules for the application

steps for updation of idps

Deactivate IDP configuration, if active:

deactivate security idp

commit

From the shell prompt, navigate to the directory /var/db/idpd/db/ and list the files present there:

% cd /var/db/idpd/db/

% ls -l

this should show the files secdb_01.db, secdb_02.db, and so on.

among the files listed, the IDP consults the file secdb 01.db when looking up the security-package version move this file to a temporary location:

% mv secdb_01.db /var/tmp/

check the security-package-version,

show security idp security-package-version

attack database

detector version :

policy template version

download (full-update) and install the security-package on the device:

request security idp security-package download full-update

request security idp security-package install

Confirm that the idp includes the latest attack db:

show security idp security-package-version

activate the IDP configuration followed by a commit.