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TippingPoint Automates Security Management
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2004-11-17
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TippingPoint's Recommended Setting, the default setting on UnityOne IPS, automates security management and provides plug-and-play operation.
This includes over 700 filters set to precisely block thousands of threats.
Each vulnerability filter blocks numerous exploits. To demonstrate the value and ease-of-use of UnityOne, TippingPoint will offer a free evaluation unit to qualified organizations.
Vail Resort's Security Manager Kelly Vogel said, "We chose TippingPoint's UnityOne over other IPS's because we could plug it in, and achieve immediate results by using the default Recommended Setting. Without any tuning, UnityOne blocked attacks instantly right out of the box."
Interim HealthCare's Director of IT Operations Bob Diaz said, "With UnityOne, we went from open to secure in less than 30 minutes."
TippingPoint's UnityOne uses a combination of protocol anomaly filters, statistical anomaly filters, signatures and vulnerability filters also known as Virtual Software Patches. By using a variety of prevention mechanisms, UnityOne offers the most comprehensive protection in the industry. UnityOne has been recognized as accurate, effective, and easy to implement through numerous reviews and awards including NSS Group's Gold Award, SC Magazine's Best Buy Award, eWEEK's Analyst's Choice Award, and SANS Institute's Trusted Tool designation.
Kenneth Miller, director of Grayson County Information Technology, said, "Of the products we evaluated, TippingPoint's product was the easiest to install and the easiest to use. It requires no ongoing management, and simply shows us the number of attacks that are blocked each day. In two weeks, we blocked 15,343 attacks."
UnityOne is able to automate set-up and security management through its Recommended Setting because of purpose-built hardware that gives it high- performance and security accuracy. Due to highly accurate filters and performance headroom to constantly add on intelligent filters, TippingPoint is able to issue a default setting where the filters recognize malicious traffic and are automatically set to block in every environment.
"TippingPoint's Recommended Setting offers a dramatic shift from legacy security systems like firewalls and intrusion detection systems, which require extensive tuning and maintenance to operate," TippingPoint's Chief Technology Officer Marc Willebeek-LeMair said. "With the Recommended Setting, users install UnityOne and start blocking attacks within minutes while maintaining the highest level of protection with our automatic Digital Vaccine updates."
UnityOne is continuously updated through the Digital Vaccine service, which delivers vulnerability protection tied to newly discovered vulnerabilities announced in the weekly SANS Institute's @Risk newsletter, which TippingPoint's world-class Digital Vaccine team authors.
TippingPoint's UnityOne Intrusion Prevention System provides Application Protection, Performance Protection and Infrastructure Protection at gigabit speeds through total packet inspection. Application Protection capabilities provide fast, accurate, reliable protection from internal and external cyber attacks. Through its Infrastructure Protection capabilities, UnityOne protects VoIP infrastructure, routers, switches, DNS and other critical infrastructure from targeted attacks and traffic anomalies. UnityOne Performance Protection capabilities enable customers to throttle non-mission critical applications that hijack valuable bandwidth and IT resources, thereby aligning network resources and business-critical application performance.
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