Proventia Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)

The IBM Proventia Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) stops Internet threats before they impact your business and delivers protection to all three layers of the network: core, perimeter and remote segments. Preemptive protection, or protection that works ahead of the threat, is available from IBM Internet Security Systems through its proprietary combination of line-speed performance, security intelligence and a modular protection engine that enables security convergence.

Highlights
The IBM Proventia Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) delivers network protection that is designed to:

• Stop threats before impact without sacrificing high-speed network performance
• Provide a platform for security convergence that helps reduce the cost of deploying and managing point solutions
• Protect networks, servers, desktops and revenue-generating applications from malicious threats
• Conserve network bandwidth and prevents network misuse/abuse from instant messaging and peer-to-peer file sharing
• Prevent data loss and aids compliance efforts

The Proventia protection engine employs multiple intrusion prevention technologies working in tandem to monitor, detect or block these classes of network threats:

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Blocking network threats and delivering security convergence at the core, perimeter and remote segments
By consolidating network security demands for data loss prevention and protection for Web applications, IBM Proventia Network IPS serves as the security platform that reduces the costs and complexity of deploying and managing point solutions for the network core, perimeter and remote segments.

When evaluating intrusion prevention technology, businesses often struggle to balance and optimize the following six areas:

• Performance
• Security
• Reliability
• Deployment
• Management
• Confidence

Proventia Network IPS delivers on all six counts, with performance, preemptive protection, high availability, simple deployment and management, and excellent customer support. Organizations that want to transfer the burden of protecting their network to a trusted security partner can rely on IBM to manage the Proventia product family. Proventia customers also benefit from a range of complementary consulting services for assessment, design, deployment, management and education.

Consolidating network security with preemptive protection
With its modular product architecture, IBM Proventia Network IPS drives security convergence by adding entirely new modules of protection as threats evolve. From worms to botnets to data security to Web applications, Proventia Network IPS delivers the protection demanded for business continuity, data security and compliance.

The IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® research and development team designed the Proventia IPS protection engine and provide the content updates that maintain ahead of the threat protection. X-Force also designed the protection modules, which include:

• Virtual Patch® Management
• Threat Detection & Prevention
• Data Loss Protection
• Web Application Protection
• Network Security Enforcement

Intrusion prevention at every layer
Learn how IBM Proventia Network IPS protects your network from unwanted traffic at every layer.

• Perimeter: IBM Proventia Network IPS blocks external threats at your network perimeter, before they affect your business.
• Core: IBM Proventia Network IPS delivers high throughput, maximum scalability and low latency to help secure the network core.
• Remote and Branch Office: IBM Proventia Network IPS extends IBM ISS' industry-leading intrusion prevention technology to the remote segments of your network.

What's new

• IBM introduces Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform (VNSP), a first-of-a-kind virtual appliance designed to secure physical and cloud assets. One of the initial offerings of IBM’s PHANTOM secure virtualization initiative, Proventia VNSP is an extensible virtual security platform that consolidates security applications like intrusion prevention, Web application protection and network policy enforcement in a single solution. You now have unprecedented scale to apply the benefits of virtualization and deliver X-Force-powered network protection for virtual network segments – a key element for delivering secure cloud-based services.
• IBM Internet Security Systems announces the new IBM Proventia Network Security Controller to extend Proventia’s industry leading preemptive protection to 10 Gbps networks. The Proventia Network Security Controller provides a 10 Gbps interface to one or more Proventia Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) appliances. The Proventia Network Security Controller also functions as an external bypass. With Proventia, you don’t have to sacrifice security to optimize network performance, and vice versa.
• NSS Labs has certified Proventia Network IPS appliance as NSS Approved. NSS Labs has validated that the GX6116 is capable of 99.6% security effectiveness at network throughput as high as 6 Gbps, the highest throughput at which NSS has ever certified an IPS product.