Intrusion Prevention Systems

Company: Silver Tail Systems

Pricing: No actual price provided. Two-year term licenses based on the number of users monitored.

Adjusts website flows to stop fraudsters while offering no impact to legitimate users.

Company: Corero Network Security

Pricing: $12,495

A standalone, purpose-built IPS.

Company: Sourcefire

Pricing: $8,995

A distributed appliance-based offering modeled on the Snort detection engine.

Company: NitroSecurity

Pricing: $54,495 as tested (lower performance models start at $6,495)

An intelligent packet-filtering system that detects sophisticated network intrusion attempts and actively records and/or stops such attempts.

Company: McAfee

Pricing: Range from $10,995 to $229,995

Provides threat protection for demanding networks.

Company: CounterSnipe Technologies

Pricing: from $500/site license

Provides network-based intrusion prevention security.

Company: Symantec

Pricing: starts at under $500 per month per device

The Managed IPS/IDS from Symantec is a fully managed system with Sourcefire IPS as its backbone. Alongside of the IPS, Symantec can also manage many other network security devices, including firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and log collection platforms.

Company: Secure Works

Pricing: starting at $550 per month

The core of the SecureWorks managed services is the Sherlock Security Platform. With this platform, SecureWorks can bring together and aggregate all logs and events from almost any security device on the network.

Company: Perimeter eSecurity

Pricing: $300-$800 per month

The Firewall and Intrusion Detection and Prevention service from Perimeter eSecurity provides 24/7 real-time protection and comprehensive reporting.

Company: Network Box USA

Pricing: from $2,200 first year

The Network Box managed service features a UTM appliance that includes three firewalls, three IDS/IPS systems, VPNs, anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spyware, anti-spam and content filtering.