Cisco launches IPS offensive

摘要

Cisco this week will announce its presence as a player in the intrusion-prevention system market with five appliances and software that adds IPS capabilities to Cisco switches, firewalls and routers. The network-based IPS appli-ances,set for delivery next month, will range from a low-end 80M bit/sec offering to one that runs at a maximum 7G bit/sec, Cisco says. The ability to identify and block network attacks will work identically across the Cisco appliances, routers, switches and the PIX firewall. The new lineup, which will be unveiled at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, will pose an obvious threat to a growing field of competitors that includes Internet Security Systems, McAfee, Symantec, 3Com's TippingPoint Technologies, Top Layer Networks and start-ups such as V-Secure Technologies.