Network IPS with iSensor

Protect your organization from harmful traffic that evades your firewall

An intrusion prevention system (IPS) is a critical layer of defense that requires vigilant monitoring to protect your network from harmful traffic that has passed through or bypassed your firewall. IPS appliances must be managed and maintained. Security alerts must be monitored and analyzed 24x7 to identify and prevent intrusions before damage occurs. Rules need to be continuously assessed and fine-tuned to thwart known and emerging threats without disrupting normal business traffic.

Dell SecureWorks Network IPS with iSensor service is a fully managed intrusion prevention hardware appliance and service bundle that helps you eliminate malicious inbound and outbound traffic around the clock, without the burden of device or signature management, and without increasing in-house headcount. This service lets you comply with regulations to protect against threats to sensitive data and provides comprehensive reporting to demonstrate the effectiveness of your security controls.

iSensor is our proprietary network intrusion prevention appliance that performs in-line deep packet inspection of inbound and outbound network traffic using multiple integrated defense technologies to identify and block real security events that require attention.

Network IPS with iSensor helps you:

Protect systems and data 24x7 without increasing in-house headcount

Around-the-clock vigilance is essential, but building a 24x7 security team is too costly for most organizations. Our Network IPS with iSensor service delivers 24x7 intrusion prevention as a turnkey service, providing advanced intrusion protection without the expense of additional headcount. Our security experts perform all tuning, administration and monitoring to ensure network protection.

Our security experts handle all the tasks needed to ensure optimum protection of your network, letting you focus on running your business. All administration, tuning and maintenance of the iSensor IPS appliance are delivered as a part of this service.

Guard against the new and emerging threats

With new cyber threats emerging every day, few organizations have the resources and security expertise necessary to keep network defenses up-to-date against the latest attacks.

Our highly qualified security professionals monitor billions of security events across our customer base every day and analyze information from thousands of sources worldwide. We leverage that information to discover new attack techniques, vulnerabilities and threats as they emerge, and develop preventative countermeasures to protect our customers before damage occurs. The Dell SecureWorks iSensor IPS appliance includes thousands of unique countermeasures developed by our Counter Threat UnitSM research team. As part of our IPS service, we automatically update the iSensor appliance with countermeasures to protect your network from emerging threats.

Filter out “noise” and manage real attacks that require attention

IPS devices pump out thousands of alerts daily, depending on how much traffic passes through your network. Our security experts monitor iSensor IPS alerts around the clock to detect threats. Using advanced correlation and analysis techniques, we filter IPS event noise down to positive and anomaly security events, which our security analysts investigate and analyze further. When an attack requires action, our security professionals contact you immediately and help protect your network.

Satisfy compliance regulations

Industry and government regulations require organizations to protect sensitive IT systems and data. IPS with iSensor is a cost-effective way to protect against cyber threats and satisfy key requirements for regulations such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GLBA, FFIEC, NCUA and SOX. This service includes on-demand reports via our secure web-based Customer Portal that help you easily demonstrate compliance to auditors, examiners and senior management.

Defend your network with real-time threat intelligence

Network IPS with iSensor defends your network based on the live transmission of activity occurring in your environment and across our customer base. The iSensor IPS appliance provides a live feed of information to our security experts who monitor attacks and identify suspicious activity and emerging threats in real time.

Security analysts in our integrated Security Operations Centers work closely with our CTU security research group, sharing information about anomalous activity and threat intelligence around the clock, every day of the year. This tight integration provides an early warning system and comprehensive context in which they analyze emerging threats and vulnerabilities. It enables rapid deployment of finely tuned rules and defenses to protect you against the latest threats.

Service Features

24x7x365 proactive management and monitoring of your iSensor-based IPS infrastructure by security experts

• Configuration and implementation
• Administration and tuning
• Real-time security event and iSensor device health monitoring
• Upgrade, change and patch management
• Thousands of unique iSensor countermeasures
• Daily audits of existing iSensor rules
• Twice weekly countermeasure updates
• Intelligence-enhanced threat protection
• On-demand security and compliance reporting

iSensor IPS Appliance

iSensor is Dell SecureWorks’ proprietary network intrusion prevention appliance. Performing in-line deep packet inspection, iSensor eliminates malicious inbound and outbound traffic in real time. iSensor features thousands of unique countermeasures including rules and other proprietary blocking mechanisms.

Features:

• In-line deep packet inspection
• 24x7 real-time attack intervention
• Thousands of unique countermeasures
• High-fidelity rules
• Advanced analysis and blocking techniques, including advanced statistical analysis, suspicious activity correlation and expert security analysis of patterns
• Zero-Day and emerging threat protection
• Remote configuration/management by security experts
• Real-time graphical dashboard and on-demand reports

Specifications:

*iSensor throughput results were determined using NISS certification test  criteria in an average traffic mix as detailed
Traffic pattern: HTTP-55%, SMTP-15%, POP3-10%, DNS-5%, Other-10%
Packets/sec: 100,000
HTTP packet size: 1,512 bytes