Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "Intrusion Prevention: Lucid Security's ipAngel 4.0"
This article is part of the February 2006 issue of Best-of-breed: Security Products of the Year: 2006
ipAngel 4.0 Lucid Security Price: $2,495 to $57,995 Lucid Security's ipAngel 4.0 Lucid Security integrates intrusion prevention, vulnerability assessment, port scanning and firewalling in ipAngel. Lucid Security's ipAngel goes far beyond standard IPS fare, integrating intrusion prevention, vulnerability assessment, port scanning and firewalling in a single box. Beyond the value of an integrated security appliance, the combination of capabilities in the newest ipAngel release (4.0) reduces false alarms, issuing alerts only against vulnerable machines. For example, a Windows Server 2000 exploit is irrelevant if the port scan discovery shows only Windows 2003 Server devices on your network, or the vulnerability scanner shows that your 2000 boxes are patched. ipAngel is capable of stopping a wide array of attacks. It is supported by LucidWatch, Lucid's expert security team, which researches the latest vulnerabilities and exploits, and creates detection and assessment signatures that are released daily. We set up a mid-range 400 appliance inline on our test ... Access >>>
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