Intrusion Prevention Systems Help Stop Threats

Business networks of all sizes face increasingly sophisticated attacks that can impede productivity, obstruct access to applications and resources, and disrupt communications.

Cisco IPS 7.0 Video Data Sheet

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Learn about the new intrusion prevention system with global correlation. (1:54 min)

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Because of compliance regulations and consumer privacy laws, corporations must now add a new set of network security priorities that:

• Minimize legal liability
• Protect brand reputation
• Safeguard intellectual property

The Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) protects your entire network with a range of deployment options. This inline, network-based defense identifies, classifies, and stops known and unknown threats to your network, including:

• Worms
• Network viruses
• System intrusion attempts
• Application misuse

Cisco IPS Sensors and Cisco IPS Sensor Software deliver high-performance, intelligent threat detection and protection. Cisco IPS with Global Correlation uses global threat information that has been turned into actionable intelligence, such as reputation scores, and pushed out to all enabled technologies. Reputation filtering and global inspection give Cisco IPS 7.0 several advantages:

• Twice the effectiveness of signature-only intrusion prevention systems
• More accurate with fewer false-positives using reputation
• 100 times faster than traditional signature-only methods

Monitoring Performance

In addition, Cisco intrusion prevention technology provides metrics in both multimedia and transactional environments, so you can tailor IPS performance exactly to your business. The sensors can be deployed widely and incrementally on servers and endpoints as dedicated appliances, and as service modules on routers, switches, and firewalls. They collaborate and adapt in real time to deal with emerging threats.

Also, with Cisco Services for IPS, you can easily manage your IPS deployment with near-real-time updates for the most recent threats.