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Development of Intrusion Prevention Technology
HP TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System provides broad,
comprehensive coverage. With the exponential growth of various
threats, profit motivated cybercrime. UAEU needs protection to defend
their servers against known and unknown threats and to prevent loss of
confidential data. The HP TippingPoint appliance operates in-line with
the UAEU network, blocking malicious and unwanted traffic, while
allowing good traffic to pass unimpeded.
HP TippingPoint is a world’s most powerful network protection
system. As packets pass through the IPS, they are fully inspected to
determine whether they are legitimate or malicious.
HP Tipping Point’s Intrusion Prevention System provide,
Application Protection
Performance Protection
Infrastructure Protection
Application protection capabilities provide fast, accurate, reliable
protection from internal and external attacks. HP TippingPoint provides
the best solutions to guard against denial of service (DoS), malicious
traffic, viruses, malware, phishing, spyware and other types of Internet
threats.
UAE University installed and HP TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention
System (IPS) in the Data Center and Perimeter network. UAEU also
installed HP TippingPoint Management System (SMS), an enterprise-class
management platform that provides administration, configuration,
monitoring and reporting for multiple HP TippingPoint platforms.