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Cisco Revs Up Intrusion Prevention Lineup With New High-Performance Sensor
IPS 4270 Appliance Provides 4-Gbps Performance, Flexible Virtualization to Support Data Center, Media-Rich and Transaction-Heavy Traffic
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - December 4, 2007) - To address increasing traffic diversity and
the growing security demands placed on enterprise networks, Cisco®
(NASDAQ : CSCO ) today broadened its market-share-leading portfolio of
intrusion prevention systems by announcing the availability of its
highest-performing IPS sensor to date, the Cisco IPS 4270.
Designed for media-rich and transaction-heavy networking environments, the
high-performance appliance addresses the security needs of today's business
communications environment and the expanding variety of collaborative
applications like voice, video and social networking tools. As high-density
traffic loads become increasingly diverse and complex, more powerful and
sophisticated intrusion prevention capabilities are required. The Cisco IPS
4270 handles these performance demands by providing greater throughput
without compromising pinpoint traffic inspection. The IPS 4270 offers up to
4-Gbps performance for media-intensive environments that feature Web-based
content and video. For networks with heavy transaction-based traffic, such
as e-commerce, point-of-sale, instant messaging, and voice over IP, the new
appliance provides up to 2 Gbps of throughput and supports as many as
20,000 transactions per second.
All of Cisco's IPS devices help information technology (IT) teams detect
security vulnerabilities and exploits, respond promptly and precisely, and
apply appropriate policies to prevent threats from entering corporate
networks. However, the top-of-the-line performance inherent in the Cisco
IPS 4270 enables businesses to protect their core enterprise locations with
the greatest concentration of traffic.
Ideal for Data Centers
"Cisco's IPS 4270 is an integral part of an enterprise organization's data
center and network security infrastructure," said David Harrison, senior
consulting systems engineer at WorldWide Technologies, a large channel
partner and customer of Cisco. "Our hands-on experience with this product
has proved to us that corporate networks that accommodate increasingly
diverse traffic loads with heavy content or transactions are well served
when utilizing the appliance's high-performance capabilities. As our
customers support varied media-rich content, we need precision-based
traffic inspection that doesn't undermine the efficiency of their network's
information delivery. We want to offer speed and sophisticated security,
and neither should come at the expense of the other. The IPS 4270 allows
large businesses to achieve the best of both worlds."
Besides high performance, the Cisco IPS 4270 has several other features
that are ideally suited for data center environments. Because data centers
are naturally complex (every enterprise typically features a unique,
customized architecture to support specific traffic demands), the IPS 4270
appliance is designed to be both flexible and virtualization-friendly. The
appliance enables IT organizations to "virtualize" both inspection and
policy information, allowing intrusion prevention services to be woven into
the overall data center system.
The IPS 4270 appliance includes redundant, hot-swappable power options and
a scalable interface that accommodates high-density copper and fiber
Gigabit Ethernet ports. It supports thousands of interfaces for virtual
local-area networks (VLANs). It integrates with Cisco's IPS Device Manager
for standalone management. For multi-unit deployments, the Cisco IPS 4270
Sensor integrates with Cisco Security Manager and Cisco Security MARS
(Monitoring Analysis and Response System) to help ensure collaborative
central management across a network security infrastructure.
"Cisco has made a conscientious effort to design a flexible, powerful and
virtualization-friendly IPS device that meets the critical needs of
high-traffic environments," said Mick Scully, vice president of product
management for Cisco's Security Technology Group. "The IPS 4270 marks a new
chapter in both Cisco and the security industry's evolution toward making
intrusion prevention and traffic inspection supportive of networks that
feature everything from collaborative Web 2.0 applications to continuous
high-density transactions. Simply put, the IPS 4270 has the performance to
address today's real-world enterprise and data center requirements."
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