Intrusion-detection and prevention system vendors will be out in force at next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco, and they are promising a slew of new products.

Such offerings are in high demand, industry watchers say. Aberdeen Group recently found that one-quarter of the 210 enterprise IT managers it surveyed plan to buy intrusion scanning, detection or prevention systems this year or next.

Application Security hopes to tap into that demand. The company will showcase a version of its network-based server software that can detect attacks on Oracle databases. Its AppRadar product already handles attacks on Microsoft SQL Server databases.

"We don't do blocking, but we issue alerts when we see violations," says Ted Julian, Application Security's vice president of marketing.

AppRadar 2.0, scheduled to ship next month for about $12,000, includes best-practices recommendations for supporting regulatory requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. AppSec competes against Guardium and other database-security software providers.

With a new version of eEye Digital Security 's Blink desktop software, the company says it now can protect companies against spyware.

COO Firas Raouf says the Blink combination firewall/IPS/vulnerability scanner can catch thousands of spyware Trojans and adware nuisances, in addition to its previous role of blocking worms and other intrusion attempts.

Blink 2.0 includes a new mechanism for warning users about phishing attacks and blocking such attacks. Other vendors such as McAfee and Sana Security offer host-based IPS systems that address phishing attacks - eEye is the first to claim its product fights phishing on the desktop.

Pricing for the Windows-based software has not been set, but the cost is expected to climb above the current price of $56 per desktop.

The prospect of employees sending sensitive corporate data, such as customer financial information, via the Internet in an unauthorized fashion is another concern for corporations.

Reconnex, whose appliance monitors content for unauthorized transmissions by inspecting traffic content both inbound and outbound, is taking the wraps off a Gigabit-speed version of its inSight product.

"Before we only reached about 250M bit/sec," says Kevin Cheek, director of product development at Reconnex. "The higher speed is important for customers with high-speed networks because otherwise there's the danger of dropping packets and missing information flows."