Lösungen - IPS Connectivity - Is Your IPS Fail-Safe ?

Intrusion prevention systems (IPSs) protect your network from malware and unauthorized access. But is your IPS hurting your network´s reliability? IPSs are installed in-line in the network to intercept suspect traffic, but what happens if the IPS loses power or gets overwhelmed by too much traffic? The network goes down or slows down, negatively impacting employee productivity and business profitability. An iBypass Switch from Net Optics protects your network against power losses and IPS slowdowns. It installs in-line in your network so the IPS doesn´t have to, and it makes sure your traffic keeps flowing even when the IPS doesn´t.

Bypass Your Troubled IPS

The iBypass Switch creates a fail-safe in-line port for your IPS. When the IPS failures, the iBypass Switch also enables you to take down the IPS for maintenance or to redeploy it without incurring any network downtime. Simply unplug the IPS, and the iBypass Switch automatically keeps the traffic flowing. You can even test new IPS signature sets by putting the IPS in passive (intrusion detection or IDS) mode, because the iBypass Switch acts like Tap and copies the traffic to the IPS when the IPS is out of the circuit.

More Network Uptime

Besides protecting your network from power and IPS failures, the iBypass Switch also enables you to take down the IPS for maintenance or to redeploy it without incurring any network downtime. Simply unplug the IPS, and the iBypass Switch automatically keeps the traffic flowing. You can even test new IPS signature sets by putting the IPS in passive (intrusion detection or IDS) mode, because the iBypass Switch acts like a Tap and copies the traffic to the IPS when the IPS is out of the circuit.

Greater Network Visibility

Unlike other bypass switches in the market, the Net Optics iBypass Switch also monitors the link traffic and provides RMON statistics such as bandwidth utilization, peak utilization, and error counts. This information can be viewed on the device's front panel LCD display, or accessed remotely using friendly graphical device management software that comes with every unit.

Flexible Connectivity

The iBypass Switch family includes models for 10/100/1000 cover media and 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit fiber. Modular SFP monitor ports on some models provide media conversion capability, enabling copper interface IPSs, for example, to be used on fiber links.

Indigo™ Software Management

Net Optics Web Manager and System Manager offer two levels of remote management capability depending on your IT needs. These new software tools provide for easy to read security and performance information from either a single device or all of the iTap enabled devices in your network.

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