The IDS/IPS(Intrusion Detection/Prevention System) has been widely deployed to protect the internal network against internet attacks. Reducing the packet inspection time is one of the most important challenges of improving the performance of the IDS/IPS. Since the IDS/IPS needs to match multiple patterns for the incoming traffic, we may have to apply the multiple pattern matching schemes, some of which use finite automata, while the others use the shift table. In this paper, we first show that the performance of those schemes would degrade with various kinds of pattern sets and payload, and then propose a hybrid multiple pattern matching scheme which combines those two schemes. The proposed scheme is organized to guarantee an appropriate level of performance in any cases. The experimental results using real traffic show that the time required to do multiple pattern matching could be reduced effectively.