Protects vulnerable applications and operating systems
Stops worms, P2P, and spyware
Ensures regulatory compliance
Accelerates incident handling
Stops attacks against web applications
Offers ease of administration

StoneGate IPS Intrusion Prevention System

Overview

StoneGate Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) protects the internal network while StoneGate Firewall/ VPN provides perimeter protection and secure connectivity between branch offices.

Spyware, worms, and peer-to-peer programs slow down network performance even taking the services down. In today’s business environment where competition is hard and decisions have to be made fast, the availability of business systems is essential. If the information is not available when it is needed then it hurts productivity. That means increased risk for the business.

StoneGate IPS is a modular yet powerful tool to secure your internal networks. With StoneGate IPS you can efficiently detect, identify and stop network traffic abuse and added with Transparent Access Control module you can easily and efficiently add segmentation to your networks thus reducing the risk of far-reaching infections considerably.

Protects vulnerable applications and operating systems

Business-critical applications and servers must run 24 hours a day. If there is security vulnerability in the application or in the operating system then it should be fixed (patched) as soon as possible. But bringing down business-critical service for maintenance means lost revenue. Normally business-critical applications have scheduled maintenance windows every month, but that is too late because the security vulnerability is there right now and anybody can exploit it. The solution for this is to put StoneGate IPS in front of the application. It stops all exploits that are trying to use the vulnerability in business-critical applications or servers.

Stops worms, P2P, and spyware

There should not be worms, spyware, or peer-to-peer traffic in corporate network. StoneGate IPS can remove them from your corporate network traffic and therefore increase the network bandwidth available for your business operations.

Accelerates incident handling

StoneGate IPS stops attacks before they damage the target server, therefore eliminating incident costs. StoneGate IPS provides a large variety of information about attempted attacks and its Incident Management feature can be used to collect that information in one place. This information can be used to create Internet abuse reports so that system administrators of the attacking network segment are notified about attacks. This helps to prevent attacks from reoccurring and allows informing responsible parties about the attack.

Stops attacks against web applications

Enterprises strive to offer flexible and easy-to-use services for their customers, partners, and employees. In many cases this means that customers have a web interface to critical core-business services. Although web access is a very convenient way for customers to access services it also presents a new risk to the core-business. StoneGate IPS prevents attacks against these services and shows what is going on in the DMZ area, thus reducing the risks.

Offers transparent segmentation and access control

With the unique transparent access control module StoneGate IPS offers segmentation and firewall access control to existing networks without the need to change network configurations. The new module further extends traditional IPS inspection functionality by allowing company networks to be segmented in different security zones providing full access control for all Ethernet traffic.