Check Point Intrusion Prevention System

Check Point's industry leading IPS solution is available as a software blade on Check Point security gateways including Power-1, IP appliances (formally Nokia), UTM-1 appliances, open servers and virtualised systems. Check Point's dedicated enterprise IPS solution; IPS-1, is available on a range of dedicated appliances or as software only for open servers.

Check Point IPS Software Blade

The Check Point IPS Software Blade provides complete, integrated, next generation firewall intrusion prevention capabilities at multi-gigabit speeds, resulting in industry-leading threat protection and performance. The Multi-Tier Threat Detection Engine combines signatures, protocol validation, anomaly detection, behavioural analysis, and other methods to provide the highest levels of network IPS protection.

Check Point IPS-1

IPS-1 solutions are available as turnkey Check Point appliances and software-only versions that can run on open servers. Real-time security updates and advisories are provided by SmartDefense Services, which are supported by Check Point Research Centres around the globe.

IPS Technology and Features

Multi-Method Detection Engine:

• Vulnerability and exploit signatures
• Protocol validation
• Anomaly detection
• Behavior-based detection
• Multi-element correlation
• Open Signatures     
• DoS Mitigation Engine

Real-Time Protection for:

• Client and server vulnerabilities
• Exploits
• Protocol misuse
• Outbound malware communications
• Tunneling attempts
• Application control
• Generic attack types without predefined signatures
• Preemptive security functions
• Instant Message and Peer-to-Peer applications

For more information about Check Point's IPS solutions please contact our sales team on 0845 643 5586 or click here to contact us via email.