McAfee adds intrusion prevention appliance
The IntruShield appliances, which can be placed at the network perimeter or in front of key resources, are designed to prevent known, zero-day, encrypted, and denial-of-service attacks. They aim to provide centralized management, and bandwidth scalability in all network environments.
McAfee said that the new IntruShield 1400 processes up to 200 Mbps. It features four 10/100 fast Ethernet detection ports; fail-over capability for high-availability situations; remote Web-based management; and detection and blocking of peer-to-peer traffic such as KaZaa and various instant messaging applications.
IntruShield appliances enables administrators to develop flexible blocking policies; for example, known attacks can have a notify-and-block policy, while unknown attacks can have a notify-only policy. Complete blocking can be used for only certain network segments.
The company said that network latencies for the IntruShield appliances are typically less than 1 millisecond.
IntruShield 1400 is available immediately at a price of $14,995.