Intrusion detection systems and intrusion prevention systems - often combined as intrusion detection and prevention - play a key role in network security defenses.
IDPS products often have features like log analysis, alerts, and threat remediation to find anomalies and trends and help security teams stop threat actors.
Overall Rating: 3.4/5. Trellix Network Security is a security platform that includes IPS and offers threat blocking, integrations, and policy management to handle sophisticated threats.
If you're a large enterprise or have an experienced security team, consider Trellix - its range of basic and advanced IDPS features will give teams plenty of functionality.
Overall Rating: 3.3/5. Check Point Quantum, the product family that includes Check Point's next-gen firewalls and security gateways, also offers IPS that integrates with other members of the platform.
Virtual patching: Security updates happen automatically every 2 hours via the Check Point security gateway.
Overall Rating: 3.2/5. SolarWinds Security Event Manager combines multiple security technologies, serving as a hub for insider threat management, incident response software, and log analytics, just to name a few.
Overall Rating: 3.1/5. Trend Micro TippingPoint is a network security solution that helps guard against zero-day and known vulnerabilities with features like traffic scanning and threat blocking.
Overall Rating: 3.1/5. Alert Logic is a managed detection and response platform that includes managed network IDS, as well as container security, threat detection, and vulnerability management.
The managed security service has industry-leading dashboards and analytics to provide insights about organizations' network activity, threats, users, and configurations to improve proactive detection and response.
IDPS solutions should allow teams to manage security policies, configuring and overseeing them in a central management console.
If you're using a security product like IDPS, you'll want to know immediately when a security event occurs.
IDPS solutions should offer reporting so security personnel can make more informed, logical decisions from clearly presented data.
IDPS solutions should carefully analyze network traffic, detecting anomalies and determining when traffic doesn't meet security policies.
Because IDPS includes prevention capabilities, not just threat detection, products should be capable of fixing or mitigating threats instead of just locating them.
IDPS helps reduce technical downtime, mitigate breaches, and improve productivity by streamlining alerts and giving security teams more context about threats.
IPS tools may also lead to more false positives because they have inferior detection capabilities than IDS. However, IDPS solutions incorporate the strengths of both systems into one product or suite of products.
IDPS can help improve compliance and policy enforcement by enforcing policies that govern device connections to the network or internet, data transfer and storage for those devices, and data retention within systems.
While IDPS won't be a sufficient standalone security solution for most enterprises, it's a good product to have in the toolbox, especially if yours integrates with other tools, like NGFWs and endpoint detection and response.
Use IDPS to support your security infrastructure as a whole, detecting intrusions and mitigating them more successfully with features like alerts, reports, and threat remediation.
This Cyber News was published on www.esecurityplanet.com. Publication date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:13:05 +0000