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TippingPoint

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• Financial Industry Solution Brief: IPS-Secured Networks
  
  As consumers and enterprises grow increasingly dependent on electronic banking, the opportunities associated with online banking pose increasingly signifi cant risks to fi nancial institutions. These organizations must ensure adequate privacy protection as well as adapt to provide and share information across multiple systems and facilities, monitor and evaluate the security of their information and maximize the value of their information technology resources. In addition, they must comply with legislation that requires the safeguarding of their networks and data.
  
  
• Healthcare Solution Brief: IPS-Secured Networks
  
  Once defined by open environments and large, interconnected sprawling networks, the healthcare facility today is moving to one of control, confi dentiality, integrity and accountability. Conversely, healthcare organizations are also challenged to make information more readily available online or remotely to physicians and patients. More and more medical devices are also being connected to large healthcare networks, often with exposed commercial operating systems that control them. The seemingly paradoxical demand in healthcare organizations today is increased availability and security.
  
  
• Higher Education Solution Brief: IPS-Secured Networks
  
  As universities focus on facilitating quality education and academic research, they are faced with the difficult task of maintaining an open door policy for massive loads of network traffic despite the growing demands of providing a stable and secure network environment. Universities must safeguard the integrity and availability of their campus data network, reduce threats to computer systems connected to the network and reduce the likelihood that computers on campus are used to attack other organizations.
  
  
• PCI-DSS Compliance Solution Brief
  
  Major retailers are experiencing unauthorized intrusions into their computer systems that process and store information customer transaction information. This has resulted in the theft of millions of credit card numbers and other sensitive customer data. In addition, they must adhere to legislation specifying guidelines for the protection of networks and critical data against malicious threats. This growing burden of responsibility requires CIOs/CSOs and IT administrators to rethink their network security priorities or risk compromised data integrity, fi nancial loss and potential criminal implications.
  
  
• IPS vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath
  
  A common notion is that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is nothing more than an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) deployed in-line with blocking capabilities. This paper explains why that notion is incorrect. Although IPS and IDS both examine traffic looking for attacks, there are critical differences. IPS and IDS both detect malicious or unwanted traffic. They both do so as completely and accurately as possible, at the speed of the network. But an IPS is an in-line device designed for automatic enforcement of network policy, whereas an IDS is an out-of-band device designed as a forensic tool for security analysts.
  
  
• Why TippingPoint IPS?
  
  We live in an age where ecommerce and business critical applications are being ‘Webified’ as fast as possible; security threats are morphing faster than ever; the membership and skill of the global hacking community is rising; and sophisticated scanning, penetrating, and obfuscating tools and techniques are widely available. Worst of all, hackers are now highly motivated to penetrate networks, applications and databases to steal information that can quickly be sold for profit.
  
  
• Companies are looking to get past firewalls
  
  Traditionally companies have used firewalls as their first line of protection -- essentially, a big fence around their computer system that keeps out intruders. The trouble is, companies must make holes in the firewall to let certain traffic, such as email, come and go. Anything that can get through these holes can carry malicious software into a network, like an email hiding a virus or a Web page carrying spyware. And these days, more malware is slipping through to steal data or cause mischief. Enter intrustion-prevention systems, which promise a smarter defense.