SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, today announced that TippingPoint Technologies' UnityOne Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is the first and only product to win the coveted NSS Gold Award in the IPS space. The industry-wide, head-to-head analysis included ISS, Network Associates, Cisco, Top Layer and NetScreen.
"The NSS Gold Award is a standard that we carefully reserve for products that we deem near perfect at the time of testing," commented Bob Walder, President of The NSS Group. "In our testing, which covered all aspects of performance, security accuracy and usability, TippingPoint demonstrated outstanding levels of performance. TippingPoint's product was the only gigabit IPS we tested that accurately blocked 100% of our attack suite without blocking any legitimate traffic at full wire speed."
The suite of over 750 individual tests is by far the most comprehensive in the industry. Each product was evaluated for performance characteristics, security accuracy and usability. The complete test results are available at http://www.nss.co.uk/ips.
"In the performance category, the UnityOne IPS demonstrated switch-like latency and gigabit throughput under all test conditions," continued Walder. "In some latency tests, the UnityOne outperformed the competition by an order of magnitude. Furthermore, in the application latency tests, TippingPoint was the only vendor that did not impact response times under any load conditions."
"With regard to security accuracy, the UnityOne was flawless and resilient to all forms of evasion," concluded Walder. "The TippingPoint UnityOne achieved the highest out-of-the-box score in all of our signature recognition, false negative and false positive tests."
In the usability category, the UnityOne Security Management System was considered 'best-of-breed'. In addition to an intuitive interface, the alert handling, analysis and reporting were deemed flexible, powerful and easy to use. The policy editor was highlighted as the best ever seen by The NSS Group.
"I'm very excited and honoured to have The NSS Group's independent testing and Gold Award validate the strengths of our product, our architectural approach, and our claim to be the industry leader in intrusion prevention," added Kip McClanahan, CEO of TippingPoint Technologies. "2004 is shaping up to be the year of the IPS, and TippingPoint is dedicated to helping customers learn about intrusion prevention and how to secure their businesses."
TippingPoint's family of UnityOne Intrusion Prevention Systems is able to perform total packet flow inspection through Layer 7 with microsecond latencies for real-time traffic analysis. The UnityOne is kept up-to-date through a Digital Vaccine service that regularly updates customer devices with new vulnerability-based filters.
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The NSS Group is Europe's foremost independent security testing facility. Based in the UK with separate security and network infrastructure testing facilities in the South of France, The NSS Group offers a range of specialist IT, networking and security-related services to vendors and end-user organisations worldwide. The group consists of two wholly owned subsidiaries: NSS Network Testing Laboratories and Network Security Services. Output from the labs, including detailed research reports, articles and white papers on the latest network and security technologies, are made available on the NSS Web site at http://www.nss.co.uk.
TippingPoint Technologies
TippingPoint Technologies is the leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth protection and attack eradication for corporate enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions. Our innovative approach offers customers an effective network-based security solution with unrivalled economics, ultra-high performance, scalability and reliability. TippingPoint is based in Austin, Texas.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, network security, intrusion detection software, and network asset management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, outsourcing and hosting.
SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for and Trend Micro, SecureData is the African distributor for US-based TippingPoint Technologies and the southern African distributor for US-based BorderWare, US-based RSA Security and UK-based Centennial. For more information, visit SecureData at www.sd.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.