Intrusion Prevention
Today’s business networks are constantly under attack by an array of Internet-based attack methods, including worm and virus infiltrations, automated scanning and probing attacks, web and SQL injections, and denial-of-service attacks. The attacker’s goals are to gain access to your valuable network resources for the purpose of data theft or alteration, or simply to badly disrupt network operations.
Unfortunately, attacks also originate from trusted users inside your network. According to a recent FBI survey, many businesses have chosen to invest their information security dollars almost entirely toward protecting their networks from external attacks despite the long-established statistics that prove the threat from insiders occurs just as frequently, but is even more serious in terms of cost to businesses.
Most corporate IT staffs are overwhelmed with projects and trouble tickets and don’t allocate the time to closely monitor logs or alerts from their in-house security systems. Corporate firewalls, anti-virus and anti-spyware defenses, and intrusion detection systems (IDS) are valuable, but only provide businesses with basic security today.
With attacks having proven their ability to damage thousands of systems across the Internet in a matter of minutes, proactive security that makes intelligent decisions immediately is a necessity. Intrusion prevention system (IPS) technology provides the advanced and proactive layer of security that today’s networks require. Capable of making immediate decisions on network traffic and terminating attacks automatically, IPS represents the latest generation of information security solutions.
IBM Internet Security Systems’ Proventia line of products offer intrusion prevention solutions that are network-based, server-based, and workstation-based.
Contact us to find out if an intrusion prevention system (IPS) would greatly increase your protection against internal or external network attacks.