IPS - Intrusion Prevention Systems
Real-time threat protection.
Intrusion Prevention is now the de-facto standard for providing real-time threat awareness and protection. An IPS can detect, notify, and also prevent attacks in real-time.
Older, IDS technology (Intrusion Detection Systems) alerted organizations to attack attempts or intrusions. However, an IDS relied heavily on administrative intervention to analyze and process the threats. Today, IPS (Intrusion Prevention Systems) utilize in-line protection within the data path to not only detect and notify on attacks, but also to prevent them in real-time, with some devices handling multi-gigabits of traffic with little or no performance loss. Many vendors today also offer the ability to provide automatic update of threat signatures to provide genuine real-time attack prevention.
IPS technology providers include:
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Corero Network Security
- Corero Network Security (CNS:LN), formerly Top Layer Security, is a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Solutions (DDS).
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TippingPoint
- The industry leader in Intrusion Protection Systems.
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Cisco
- One of the world's leading manufacturers of network and security equipment. Cisco's primary business is in internetworking products, such as routers, bridges, and switches but they also have a complete selection of security and wireless solutions.
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Juniper
- Juniper offers a broad product portfolio, spanning routing, switching, security, application acceleration, identity policy and control, and management, designed to give customers unmatched performance, greater choice and flexibility while reducing overall total cost of ownership.
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Check Point
- Check Point Software Technologies is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, and is the only vendor to deliver Total Security for networks, data and end points, unified under a single management framework.
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Palo Alto Networks
- Palo Alto Networks offers real innovation in the firewall by enabling unprecedented visibility and control of applications and content – by user, not just IP address – at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation.
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Enterasys
- Enterasys network switching, routing and security solutions are used by thousands of customers in more than 70 countries worldwide to deliver business-oriented, identity-based visibility and control for voice, video, and data applications.
