Q: What is the Net-IPS IntruPro IPS solution?
A: Net-IPS IntruPro provides enterprise-class intrusion prevention and detection capabilities. The Net-IPS IntruPro solution is a fully integrated appliance solution, providing hardware, sensor software, management software, and a signature update service.

Q: How is Net-IPS IntruPro different from other IDS/IPS solutions?
A: Net-IPS IntruPro represents the next generation in intrusion prevention systems and is based on nAppliance's unique patent-pending, application-aware inline IPS technology. The inline IPS architecture uses stateful application engines and a combination of advanced detection techniques to provide greater intrusion detection accuracy for reduced false alarms and higher performance than traditional IDS and IPS approaches. Furthermore, the Inline IPS architecture leverages the benefits of both signature based techniques and anomaly based detection.

Q: Why are the intrusion signature updates superior to others?
A: Net-IPS IntruPro signature updates do not rely solely on publicly available open source signatures as many SNORT-based IDS/IPS systems do.

Q: How does application-aware technology assist with detection accuracy and performance?
A: The inline IPS technology uses sophisticated application intelligence to classify traffic based on state, service and direction. The architecture tracks the state of the session by employing network, transport and application protocol engines. Application intelligence minimizes packet processing because only relevant rules need to be checked. This dramatically boosts the performance over traditional pattern matching and anomaly correlation techniques. The result is high detection accuracy with a minimum to zero false positives.

Q: How are new rules added to the signature database?
A: nAppliance constantly updates the signature files on the central signature server. Net-IPS IntruPro™ Manager systems can be configured to automatically download new signatures, and to distribute them to the appliances. In addition to the signature updates, Net-IPS IntruPro™ Manager allows users to manually add new signature entries using the user friendly graphical user interface wizard.

Q: What configuration can optimize the performance of the Net-IPS IntruPro™ solution?
A: Net-IPS IntruPro™ Sensor allows tuning of rules files to maximize the performance without compromising the security. By applying only those rules that are relevant to your network and requirements, processing overhead can be reduced to offer greater performance.

Q: How does Net-IPS IntruPro™ Manager allow an administrator to customize log information?
A: Most other intrusion detection/prevention systems generate a large number of logs making it difficult for an administrator to go through each and every log event and identify attacks. Net-IPS IntruPro™ Manager is designed to help administrators efficiently analyze logs through the use of special event alerts. This customized information generates alert messages based upon conditions defined by the administrator.

Q: Can I buy Net-IPS IntruPro™ for my home computer to protect against intrusions?
A: No. Net-IPS IntruPro™ is an inline Network Intrusion Prevention System. It is an appliance solution that is deployed in an enterprise network.