For recommending some security appliance like IPS, more information is necessary. The information like:
• What company needed to protect?
• How many concurrent connection needed?
• How many new connection per second you need?
• How much bandwidth used by servers behind IPS?
• How much budget company can pay for this appliance?
But based on your information, in generally you can used: Cisco Firepower 9300 series or Fortinet fortigate 7000 series or higher.
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For recommending some security appliance like IPS, more information is necessary. The information like:
• What company needed to protect?
• How many concurrent connection needed?
• How many new connection per second you need?
• How much bandwidth used by servers behind IPS?
• How much budget company can pay for this appliance?
But based on your information, in generally you can used: Cisco Firepower 9300 series or Fortinet fortigate 7000 series or higher.
Commercial or Open Source?
1) AlienVault has both, their “open source SIEM”, and a commercial version.
2) Bro Network Security monitor is also an excellent IDS.
3) Snort is also very well regarded. There have both open source, and commercial implementations.
These are three good solutions to check out.
Regards,
Craig