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IPS Sensor [EOL] Reviews

Vendor: Cisco
4.5 out of 5
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What is IPS Sensor [EOL]?

Cisco IPS Sensors detect threats to intellectual property and customer data, with modular inspection throughout the network stack, stop sophisticated attackers by detecting behavioral anomalies, evasion, and attacks against vulnerabilities, prevent threats with confidence using the industry's most comprehensive set of threat prevention actions, focus response with dynamic threat ratings and detailed logging and provide protection from the latest threats and vulnerabilities.
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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

  • "A great advantage: It stops trigger packets and can use stream normalization techniques."
  • "It protects the network from several network attacks, for example DDOS, SQL injections, botnets."

Room for Improvement

  • "It lacks the capability to detect operating system attacks despite the fact that software based IPS does."
  • "Security wise this product is the best IPS system but we have seen that due to its DPI it tends to slow the network down."
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IPS Sensor [EOL] Reviews Summary
Author infoRatingReview Summary
Network Engineer at a university with 51-200 employees5.0I found the Cisco IPS Sensor stops trigger packets, is OS independent, and cost-effective. My assessment shows limited reporting, added latency, and no detection for operating system attacks, unlike some alternatives.
Infrastructure Expert at a tech company with 51-200 employees4.0I found this IPS offers 4Gbps inspection and strong threat protection. However, its DPI slows the network, it's costly, and struggles with encrypted traffic, causing discontinuations. MARS integration was a highlight, despite being EoL.
it_user2871 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user2871
Network Engineer at a university with 51-200 employees
Nov 28, 2012
Cisco's powerful sensor stops threats and attacks related to network traffic (not operating system and application)

Valuable Features:


-A great advantage: It stops trigger packets. Also it can use stream normalization techniques.
-Operating system independent and cost-effective as it can be added like a WIC to the Cisco router (ISR router). At our company we have chosen the IPS WIC module to match with our Cisco 3745 router instead of KASPERSKY, MacAfee or Symantec IPS sensor.


Room for Improvement:


-Limited reporting capability based on platform and definition file. Also consider more latency and delay when using IPS as it has to analyze the traffic and then take action which in return adds delay to the network.
-It lacks the capability to detect operating system attacks despite the fact that software based IPS does.


Other Advice:


Cisco IPS Sensor analyzes traffic. As opposed to IDS (Intrusion Detection Sensor), IPS Sensor detects and takes action for the detected threats and attacks (instead of just detecting with no action which is what IDS does)

it_user1998 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1998
Infrastructure Expert at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Aug 30, 2012
The best IPS system which is getting obsolete

Valuable Features:


Lets talk about the speed of the device, It can perform inspection at 4Gbps speed.
It protects the network from several network attacks. For example DDOS, SQL Injections, Botnets.
It also has intelligent threat detection system.
IPS can be configured in Cisco ISRs using advanced IP Services.
Also it can be integrated in ASA with AIP-SSM.
You can perform rate limiting using IPS.
You can use self created signatures also can use third-party signatures for threat detection.For example Trend Micro filtering service.


Room for Improvement:


Security wise this product is the best IPS system but we have seen that due to its DPI it tends to slow the network down. Which is very critical for enterprise users. That is why a lot of organizations are discontinuing to use this product. Also the cost of this product is higher than any other IPS system in the market. Another major issue with Cisco IPS sensor is it has problems detecting encrypted traffic.


Other Advice:


The best feature I liked about this product is its integration with CISCO MARS. When it is integrated with MARS, it collects the logs and sends it to the MARS which analyzes if it is an attack and then sends the signal to IPS Sensor to allow or block the traffic. Also everything happens using AI, hence without human interaction but MARS reached end of life.