14 December 2010

McAfee Named Leader for Network IPS

McAfee positioned as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention Systems.  McAfee's leadership position based on ability to execute and completeness of vision.

Protection against network-based threats and policy violations

According to Gartner, "Network IPS performs in-line inspection of network traffic in a near-real-time manner. The inspection identifies attacks using known vulnerabilities of commonly used software products and protocols, as well as known attack patterns with unusual activity based on connection sequences or traffic volume. The primary placement point is at the Internet edge, with secondary placements in branch offices, the data center and, less often, the internal network."

"...Network IPS adds 'block attacks and let everything else through' security enforcement to the 'deny everything except that which is explicitly allowed' policy enforcement that first-generation firewalls provide."