Attack Mitigator IPS 5500 IPS Solution Ready to Ship
Top Layer Networks has announced the availability of the latest release of its flagship Attack Mitigator IPS 5500 family of intrusion prevention solutions. Version 3 of the IPS 5500 expands on Top Layer's leadership position in providing superior levels of protection and performance for critical IT assets.
The IPS 5500 now offers improved mechanisms for network-level and application-level protection from cyber threats including undesired access, malicious content, such as viruses, worms, Trojans and other remote exploits, and rate-based attacks, such as DoS, DDoS and other Flood attacks. With Top Layer's enhanced protection capabilities and globally proven anti-DDoS technology, the IPS 5500 offers more robust protection against existing cyber-threats and newly discovered "zero-day" exploits. Top Layer has also added new features that provide easier and faster deployment, improved configuration management, and improved detailed IPS analysis and reports.
"Those behind today's cyber threats are relentless and creative, identifying new software and systems vulnerabilities as well as utilizing social engineering tricks to penetrate a company's defenses," said Mike Paquette, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Top Layer. "The new release of our Attack Mitigator IPS 5500 provides a number of powerful enhancements that deliver the highest levels of protection and performance necessary for our customers to stay ahead of the cyber-threats and dynamic DDoS attacks that lurk online. In addition, we've added a number of improvements to the user interface and default security configurations that will help our customers easily deploy and quickly adapt the IPS 5500 solution to their specific needs."
The following list summarizes the highlights of the IPS 5500 version 3:
New advanced protection capabilities
-- Protection Against Zero-Day Exploits: Some vendors claim to protect against zero-day exploits by monitoring traffic anomalies -- this is woefully inadequate. Top Layer uses internally developed Advanced Protocol Validation Modules to provide leading edge protection against known and unknown application-level attacks, including zero-day attacks.
-- Availability of New Advanced Protocol Validation Modules: Top Layer has added the following Advanced Protocol Validation Modules to its protection mechanisms -- email (SMTP), Microsoft RPC, Microsoft CIFS, SSH and Telnet. In conjunction with new enhancements to its existing Advanced Protocol Validation Modules (HTTP, FTP and DNS), Top Layer is able to provide the most comprehensive protection for all of these protocols. The IPS 5500 can also be easily updated to accept new signatures for future vulnerabilities that may not be covered by its suite of Advanced Protocol Validation Modules. In addition, customers may add their own user-defined signatures.
-- New DDoS Attack Mitigation Capabilities: Top Layer's industry-leading DDoS protection has been further enhanced with the introduction of a feature called "Client Request Limiting" - a new anti-DDoS feature that allows the IPS 5500 to defend against new advanced types of brute force DDoS attacks including those targeted at DNS infrastructures.
-- Powerful Firewall Enhancements: Enhancements to firewall configurations deliver added protection and ease of use. The IPS 5500 firewall function maintains session state with no performance degradation at multi-gigabit loads.
-- Unparalleled Performance: Other IPS solutions drop legitimate traffic when under attack. Top Layer's approach to protection ensures that all legitimate traffic will continue to pass, even when an organization is under brute force network and application attacks.
-- IPS 5500 Can Be Deployed as a ProtectionCluster(TM): Top Layer's patented, custom-ASIC IPS 5500 can deliver non-stop protection at up to eight gigabits per second, even in networks that require asymmetric traffic handling, the highest performance of any IPS solution.
-- Overall - Best Performing IPS Available: The Tolly Group report issued in November 2004 proves that Top Layer's latest IPS 5500 can process more legitimate business transactions when defending against attacks.
Faster deployment
-- Pre-Configured Security Policies provide Immediate Comprehensive Out-of-the-Box Protection: Top Layer has introduced several pre-configured security policies including "recommended" rule sets to provide immediate comprehensive out-of-the-box protection which means customers experience an immediate return on their investment.
Improved usability
-- New Descriptive Rule and Event Names: Addition of descriptive rule and event names delivers improved configuration and reporting capabilities that allow customers to easily invoke configuration changes.
-- Real-time Event Drill-Down Analysis/Detailed Packet Drilldown: Detailed packet information available through Top Layer's device manager provides for better real-time analysis of threats.
-- Compatibility with Top Layer's SecureCommand+(TM) Management Solution: By combining centralized management capabilities with an advanced security information management solution, SecureCommand+ enables customers to defend against highly adaptive and dynamic security threats and automate risk-based correlation and analysis by allowing the rapid provisioning of the IPS infrastructure with a single button-click.
Source: press release
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