Powerful Protection in a Small Form Factor

Cisco IPS 4300 Series Sensors deliver over 1 Gbps of enterprise-class intrusion prevention protection in an easy-to-use and deploy one rack-unit (1 RU) form factor. With hardware-accelerated threat inspection, the industry's first context-aware IPS provides accuracy, confidence, and reliability in an economical package.

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Protect servers and end hosts from attack through network-based security inspection. (02:10 min).

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Features and Capabilities

The context aware Cisco IPS 4300 Series Sensors gain the following advantages from the Cisco SecureX framework and Cisco Security Intelligence Operations:

• Detailed attack information delivered using signature updates twice a week
• Attacker visibility updated every 15 minutes through Global Correlation reputation feeds
• Victim information using OS fingerprinting and internal reputation

Top-line effectiveness and bottom-line total cost of ownership (TCO) are outstanding strengths of the 4300 Series. Others include:

• Rapid and scalable deployment through dynamic, default-driven policy management and setup
• Hardware-accelerated intrusion prevention in a one-rack-unit form factor, for high throughput in a small footprin
• Efficient and common management across the entire IPS product line with IPS Manager Express or Cisco Security Manager
• Support for innovative protection, such as advanced evasion detection and industrial controls security