IBM Network Intrusion Protection System (IPS) GX7800

Designed to assist in fight against harder and harder and promptly changing threats, the IBM Network Intrusion Protection System (IPS) GX7800 system gives to the organizations an opportunity to protect the data and infrastructure from a non-authorized access and the attacks without prejudice to performance and readiness of the major business applications.

In particular, this device:

• About 20 Gigabits per second (Gbps) work with capacity that exceeds performance of the competing solutions (1) almost twice;
• Provides to the organizations a full range of security protections — such as protection of web applications — without capacity reduction of network;
• Extends security protections to cloud environments for data protection;
• Uses results of researches of service IBM X-Force, helping the companies to be protected from threats beforehand.

The modern organizations daily face new security risks, from date leaks owing to inadvertent actions of employees to viruses, bots and the purposeful attacks using vulnerabilities in IT infrastructure. Before the organizations had to select between security for protection against these threats and effective functioning of the major business applications, leaving them unprotected from the possible attacks.

The new device allows to unroll security protections in basic network where performance and readiness are especially important. These means include, in addition to all key functions of the traditional IPS systems, such opportunities as it is hardwired web applications, prevention of data loss and Virtual Patch technology, and all of them can be executed at the same time for increase in the security levels. For example, thanks to integration into the solution IBM Rational AppScan, the new version of a system can automatically create special security policies for protection of web applications, proceeding from the vulnerabilities revealed using AppScan.

Besides, the enterprises which unrolled IBM IPS can reduce costs and difficulties, thanks to consolidation of legacy systems and devices for protection against invasions. Clients can independently unroll and support the device, or charge these tasks to experts of service IBM Managed Security Services for reducing costs for operations on security. The new IPS system is supported as a component of the complete solution through two managed services of security — Intrusion Detection and Prevention System Management and Managed Protection Services.

Increasing the capacity of the device, IBM also expands its opportunities for data protection in cloud environments and helps clients to pass to new models of IT service. For rendering to clients the additional help in mastering of these opportunities, IBM supplements the managed services of security and services of consultants who closely cooperate with clients for satisfaction their individual the needs for protection of cloud environments, offering services of assessment of level of security of the planned or existing cloud environments and also recommendations about development of different strategy of security.

Performance measures and readiness of the new platform allow to satisfy requirements of the organizations which cannot sacrifice security of the networks or performance of the applications, such as companies from the financial services industry with intensive data processing, in which effects of idle times can be catastrophic. Thanks to support of modern high-speed 10-gigabit Ethernet networks and the powerful, high-performance mechanism of control of security, IBM IPS it can be scaled for providing the same means of protecting to the suppliers of cloud services caring for protection not only own data, but also these clients.

The solution is proposed by unique approach to security, allowing clients to prevent potential threats for the systems, workstations and terminal units, without waiting for the real attack. It is especially valuable in case of attacks on web applications which made more than 55% of all cases of violation of security in the first half of 2010. Supported by researches IBM X-Force, the solution IBM IPS will expand protection using Virtual Patch technology to block any threat which experts X-Force считают potential risk, even to the official statement about vulnerability and release of a security system service pack by software provider.