Intrusion Prevention Systems

The Proventia G400 might look like a standard rack-mount Intel-based server, but it's a lot more than that. The hardware was specifically chosen, drivers written for it and a network agent pre-installed. As a result, it can cope with up to 400Mbps of throughput and monitor up to four network ...

McAfee's IntruShield 2700 fits into the middle of its range, offering 600Mbps of throughput. It has six Fast Ethernet and two GBIC ports for detection, and three Fast Ethernet ports for responses. You can install it in either tap mode or inline mode, where the box sits between the router ...

This is a 2U chassis designed to block attacks before they cause damage. It sits between the WAN and firewall, rather than inside the firewall as with other products.

Sourcefire's Intrusion Sensor 2000 (IS2000) is an Intel-based appliance that runs a hardened version of Linux and the intrusion detection software. It uses two Fast Ethernet interfaces and has a throughput of 100Mbps.

As SonicWALL's bigger brother in their popular Internet Security Appliance family, the PRO 4060 is aimed at large corporate networks and provides firewall, VPN, intrusion-prevention technologies as well as anti-virus and content-filtering functionality.

As wireless networks grow in popularity, many security professionals are justly worried about the ease in which non-technical users can set up and operate wireless networks. Also securing wireless infrastructures can be tricky, because the set up of wireless networks can be problematical and not as secure as one might ...

This product essentially takes over from where BlackICE Guard left off. The current version offers greater protocol analysis pattern-based detection and a few bug fixes thrown in for good measure.