Intrusion Detection Systems

Company: IBM ISS

Pricing: starts at $575/month

The IBM Managed Protection Service combines a full security monitoring staff with security monitoring devices to manage, monitor and respond to security threats on a customer’s network.

Company: F-Secure

Pricing: Pricing per license for one year is about $44

The F-Secure Protection Service for Business is a completely integrated security platform which consists of two parts. The first part is comprised of client applications that are deployed across the network. The second part is a web portal that can be used to manage clients and to monitor the network.

Company: Clone Systems

Pricing: $525/month

The Clone Systems Clone Guard Managed Security Suite provides protection from malicious threats against VoIP, web or customized applications. This service detects, logs, prevents and reports suspicious, malicious or unauthorized access to critical network resources.

Company: AT & T Corporation

Pricing: starts at under $1,000/month

The Network-Based Fire­wall service provided by AT&T protects a custom­er’s WAN by providing secure inbound and outbound internet access through security gate­ways. This service also provides a consistent enforcement of security policies to all customer locations without premises equipment

Company: Alert Logic

Pricing: $1,100/month

The Threat Manager v3.5.4 with ActiveWatch Monitoring Service from Alert Logic combines intrusion protection and vulnerability management in one device that offers proac­tive and reactive protection from threats.

Company: ZyXEL Communications

Pricing: $999.99 Security Service Kit (content filtering, AV, IDS/IDP); $609.99/year

Every now and then, I pluck a product out of our test queue because it intrigues me. This product is one of those.

Company: IBM-ISS

Pricing: just shy of $200,000

The Proventia IPS GX6116 could be considered the high-end sports car of IPS appliances. Not only does this device include several protection and analysis features — such as protocol analysis for more than 140 different network and application protocols, heuristics and pattern matching — but it is built for speed.

Company: NitroSecurity

Pricing: $10,495 (Enterprise Security Manager device adds $19,995)

The NitroGuard IPS is part of the NitroView suite of products available from NitroSecurity. It is one of a handful of IPS products that allows detailed analysis of captured events. When used with the rest of the suite, it has extensive analysis capability beyond that normally found in an IPS.

Company: Corero Network Security

Pricing: starting at $35,000

The Top Layer IPS offers good protection features. This product includes what Top Layer calls Three Dimensional Protection. This device uses the IPS for protection against malicious content, a firewall that uses stateful packet filtering, and protection from denial of service and other rate-based attacks.

Company: Reflex Security

Pricing: $35,000

The Reflex Interceptor 1000 is an IPS with a twist. This appliance not only has a highly capable IPS with protection for such vectors as intrusions, malicious content, DoS, and anomalies, but it also can be equipped with gateway virus protection and many other features.