Key Features of Intrusion Prevention Systems

• As packets pass through the IPS, they are fully inspected to determine whether they are legitimate or malicious.
• Provide Application Protection, Performance Protection and Infrastructure Protection at gigabit speeds through total packet inspection.
• Enable customers to throttle non-mission critical applications that hijack valuable bandwidth and IT resources, thereby aligning network resources and business-critical application performance.
• The system is built upon Tipping Point`s Threat Suppression Engine [TSE] - a highly specialized hardware-based intrusion prevention platform
• Utilizes custom ASICs, a 20 Gbps backplane and high-performance network processors to perform total packet flow inspection at Layers 2-7.
• Parallel processing ensures that packet flows continue to move through the IPS with a latency of less than 84 microseconds, independent of the number of filters that are applied.
• Enables traffic classification and rate shaping.
• Digital Vaccine service delivers comprehensive security filters to TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention Systems to to pre-emptively protect against the exploit of new and zero-day vulnerabilities.
• Digital Vaccine updates are automatically delivered twice a week, or immediately when critical vulnerabilities and threats emerge.