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Solution Overview
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Cisco Intrusion Prevention Solutions
Proactive Integrated, Collaborative, and Adaptive Network Protection
Cisco
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Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions accurately identify, classify, and stop malicious
traffic, including worms, spyware, adware, network viruses, and application abuse, before they
affect business resiliency.
Networks have evolved into complicated architectures, involving multiple segments, branches,
ingress and egress points. Due to this constantly changing landscape, network security must
provide a solution that works in concert with network devices, servers, and endpoints.
Intrusion prevention is a core element of a successful security solution; however, it must do more
than simply drop traffic it deems as a standard threat.
As a core component of the Cisco
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Self-Defending Network, Cisco intrusion prevention system
(IPS) solutions deliver comprehensive threat prevention from attacks and threats, regardless of
their origin or history. Cisco IPS solutions deliver market-leading threat protection through:
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Pervasive network integration—Cisco IPS solutions defeat threats from multiple vectors,
including network, server, and desktop endpoints. The solutions range from purpose-built
appliances and integrated firewall and IPS devices to services modules for routers and
switches. Cisco IPS solutions protect the network from policy violations, vulnerability
exploitations, and anomalous activity through detailed inspection of traffic at Layers 2
through 7—across the network. The solutions also simplify deployment and provide
contextual analysis through Risk Rating algorithms, giving the user up-to-the-minute
security posture information.
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Collaborative threat prevention—Cisco IPS solutions employ a unique, system wide
security ecosystem that assesses and reacts to threats, delivering unmatched network
scalability and resiliency. This collaborative system includes cross-solution feedback
linkages, common policy management, multivendor event correlation, attack path
identification, passive/active fingerprinting, host-based (Cisco Security Agent) IPS
collaboration, load-balancing capabilities, and visibility into encrypted traffic.
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Proactive posture adaptation—As your network threat posture changes, a Cisco IPS
solution evolves and adapts to stay ahead of the security landscape, mitigating threats by
both known and unknown attacks. Extensive behavioral analysis, anomaly detection, policy
adjustments, and rapid threat response techniques save time, resources, and most
importantly--your organization's assets and productivity.
The result is a pervasive, comprehensive, and proactive threat prevention solution that provides
end-to-end, day-zero protection of your network.
Integrated Protection Where You Need It the Most
A Cisco IPS Solution delivers inline intrusion prevention capabilities, integrated at key points in the
network, allowing for protection of your network’s critical assets and data. Figure 1 shows how IPS
technology can be strategically deployed throughout the network architecture, providing
comprehensive prevention and protection.