Sourcefire Next-Generation IPS raises the bar for IPS technology by integrating real-time contextual awareness into its inspection. The system gathers information about network and host configurations, applications and operating systems, user identity, and network behavior and traffic baselines. By having the utmost visibility into what’s running on your network, NGIPS offers event impact assessment, automated IPS tuning, and user identification to significantly lower the total cost of ownership.

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What Is A Next-Generation IPS?

Sourcefire’s vision of the Next-Generation IPS spans three high level architectural principals–an Open Architecture, Contextual Awareness, and Intelligent Automation. This architecture is derived from a careful understanding of security professionals’ present and emerging requirements, and over a decades worth of experience in addressing real-world security needs.

• Open Architecture: Experience has shown it’s crucial security systems be based on an open architecture. Openness and transparency are the only reliable means of ensuring the high level of accuracy required for effective and efficient threat monitoring, detection, and prevention.
• Context: Second, the system must provide users with detailed awareness of contextual factors such as the precise composition and expected behavior of the network being protected, the individual users and groups found on the network, and the actual applications and systems that form the network.
• Intelligent Automation: The NGIPS must embrace and enable automation. Automation ensures responses to security events are both timely and consistent. Automation also helps lower the cost of ongoing administration by addressing routine tuning, update, and maintenance tasks–enhancing the effectiveness and accuracy of the NGIPS while helping to lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Sourcefire Solutions Overview datasheet

Sourcefire 3D system and SSL appliance specifications

The Case for Next Generation IPS Sourcefire technology brief

Compliance Standards

Requirement 11 Regularly test security systems and processes

Sourcefire 3D system PCI-DSS compliance

GCSX No 9 Intrusion Detection 

A-10-6 Network security management

Sourcefire Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Network Intrusion Prevention Appliances Magic Quadrant Report

Sourcefire ICSA labs product capability assurance report PCI-DSS