IPS Best Practice Guide

CounterSnipe has been working with a number of security consultants to develop an Industry Best Practice Guide for IPS systems. This Open Source guide was developed to identify and recommend best practice for critical aspects of an IPS implementation.

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An Introduction to IPS

A paper on the internal workings of Intrusion Prevention Systems and what potential benefits an IPS can bring to your company.

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Performance evaluation of APD2000

A paper on the performance evaluation of the APD that demonstrates the capability of the APD under attack loads.

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Performance Assessment of Snort Inline

A paper that asesses how effective Snort-inline is at identifying false positives and terminating connections that match attack patterns. It was found that Snort-inline can make a signaficant reduction in the number of visible vulnerabilities and it can also reduce the number of positives (false) reported by up to 80% in the case of some vulnerability scanners.

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IDS vs IPS Risk Profiles

Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) is very different from Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and have distinct different benefits and operational requirements. This paper explores the difference between IDS and IPS in terms of the effect that these technologies have on your security risk profile.

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Intrusion Prevention Architectures

This paper explores how you could implement your Active Protection Device depending on your organisation's architectural setup.

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