HP Unveils Intrusion Prevention System

HP has announced the HP TippingPoint NX Platform Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) product line, designed to protect enterprise networks, applications and data from today’s aggressive, advanced threats.

As enterprises adopt complex IT environments, that enable cloud computing, virtualisation and mobility, the attack surfaces expand exponentially. To reduce the risk of falling victim to costly, disruptive attacks, organisations need comprehensive network security that covers critical endpoints throughout the enterprise.

“The security landscape is becoming more complex, where attacks come in many forms bundled together working as one, forcing enterprises to rethink their traditional defense strategies,” said Damanjit Singh Uberoi, Chief Solutions Architect and Evangelist, South Asia HP Enterprise Security Products. “With the new HP NX NGIPS platform, organisations can address these challenges with an adaptive, high-performance solution that can seamlessly works with a host of other defences to protect against sophisticated threats.”

Designed for enterprise, datacentre and network protection, the HP NX NGIPS platform provides enterprises and service providers with in-line, real-time protection across critical networks. By adding significant capacity for deep packet traffic inspection, the platform delivers vulnerability protection across major endpoints including: network devices, virtual machines, operating systems, and business-critical applications. As with all HP IPS solutions, leading research from HP TippingPoint DVLabs, HP Reputation Digital Vacine and the Zero Day Initiative are leveraged to keep protections current.

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The HP NX NGIPS platform is powered by X-Armour Technology, a new modular software architecture designed to adapt automatically to threats as they are discovered, updating protections every two hours. The architecture has several core services that provide flexible deployment options, in-line network deployment and traffic optimisation. The new NGIPS offers a broad range of benefits, including botnet mitigation, malware protection, Web application security, application awareness and control and custom security.

The HP NX NGIPS platform provides a simple, modular approach for supporting the highest port density on the market today, scaling from 16 segments of 10GbE, four segments of 40GbE, or 24 segments of 1GbE, in only two rack units. Customers can simply swap plug-and-play modules to accommodate a variety of network speeds, without needing to add additional hardware, keeping the footprint consistent regardless of changes to network configuration. This also allows organisations to save rack space and maintain consistent power consumption and cooling costs.