• Enterprise Threat Mgmt
  • IPS
  • NBA
  • NAC
  • VA
• Compliance
• Vertical Industries

Sourcefire^® Intrusion Prevention

A pioneer in intrusion detection and prevention technology, Sourcefire first introduced open-source SNORT^® in 2001. Since then, Snort has rapidly grown to become the de-facto standard IDS and IPS detection engine, in place at more than 80% of the Fortune 100, over half of the Fortune 500, and every U.S. federal government agency.

Sourcefire’s commercial IPS product leverages the award-winning Snort detection engine, and is a cornerstone of the Sourcefire 3D™ System. Sourcefire’s Intrusion Prevention solution defends corporate networks at all stages of the attack continuum—before, during and after the attack.

Sourcefire’s IPS is vastly different from a traditional IPS “point” solution. Our IPS leverages threat, endpoint and network intelligence collected by the entire Sourcefire 3D System to aid security analysts and the IPS itself in making good blocking decisions, and to drastically reduce false positives and negatives. The illustration below compares the Sourcefire 3D System to a traditional IPS solution.

By implementing Sourcefire’s IPS solution, customers significantly reduce false positives and negatives, allowing security analysts to focus their efforts on those security events that matter most. This greatly reduces operating cost and significantly reduces the potential for network downtime.