A broad-scope intrusion detection system analyzes traffic coming into multiple hosts or other customers' computers or sites. This provides additional data for analysis as compared to systems that just analyze the traffic coming into one customer's site. Additional detection schemes can be used to recognize...http://www.google.com/patents/US6715084?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6715084 - Firewall system and method via feedback from broad-scope monitoring for intrusion detection
