Compare Cisco IOS IPS with Cisco IPS Appliance/Modules

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Updated:March 13, 2015

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	IOS IPS in 12.4(11)T2 or Later Releases	42xx Sensors, IDSM2, SSM-AIP, AIM-IPS Modules (version 6.0)
Signatures Supported	Subset of 2000+ signatures (depends on available memory)	2300+ signatures (only a subset are enabled by default)
Signature Updates and Tuning	Using CLI and IDCONF	Using IDCONF transactions
Management Applications	SDM 2.4 and CSM 3.1	IDM and CSM 3.1
Event Notification	Syslog and SDEE	SDEE and SNMPv2
Event Monitoring	IEV 5.1.2 and CS-MARS	IEV 5.2.x and CS-MARS
Day-Zero Anomaly Detection	No	Yes
Transparent (L2) IPS	Yes	Yes
Rate Limiting	No	Yes
IPv6 Detection	No	Yes
Risk Rating	Yes	Yes
Signature Event Action Proc.	Yes	Yes
Meta Signatures	No	Yes
Voice, Sweep and Flood Engines	No	Yes (H.225 for voice, no SIP)
Sample Bundle Price with 1 yr Cisco Services for IPS Contract	2851 Security Bundle with IPS service contract: $8,970	ASA 5510 with AIP-SSM-10 and service contract: $9,404

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