Check Point IPS-1

Check Point IPS-1 Overview:

Today’s networks operate in an environment that is ever changing, with dynamic configurations, policy requirements, deployment needs, and security threats. Check Point IPS-1™ is a dedicated intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS) that helps organizations secure their enterprise network, and protect servers and critical data against worms, automated malware, and blended threats both known and unknown.

IPS-1 provides the strong, robust, and dynamic security for which Check Point is known. In addition, IPS-1 features superior management tools that increase administrator efficiency and provide unique rapid-response mitigation. The highly intuitive IPS-1 centralized interface provides graphical management tools that allow a system administrator to quickly identify and act on threats to the network. IPS-1 management and enforcement are unified with the Check Point security architecture, so administrators can implement IPS defenses seamlessly across an entire network security infrastructure. Also, because of this unification, the familiar, intuitive Check Point interface helps reduce IPS-1 training costs and increase administrator effectiveness.

IPS-1 solutions are available both as turnkey Check Point appliances and software- only versions that can run on open servers. IPS-1 also offers multiple deployment modes—inline, bridge, IDS—that add to its flexibility.

Features & Benefits:

Key Benefits

• Robust security to protect your network and business against increasingly sophisticated attacks and attack vectors
• Efficient management to overcome data overload with tools that provide direct, graphical focus only on important security events associated with critical business systems
• Flexible deployment to deliver defense configurations to meet ever-changing network dynamics and policy requirements

The Security To Protect Your Network:

IPS-1 utilizes multiple methods of defense to protect your network and business against the multitude of increasingly sophisticated attacks and attack vectors.

Accurate and granular attack prevention
Designed to provide immediate and reliable blocking of unwanted network traffic, IPS-1 systems not only stop backdoor and blended threats (such as Code Red, MS Blaster, Nimda, and SQL Slammer worms), but also attacks including SQL injection, command tampering, and polymorphic buffer overflows—in real time before they can affect your organization. From its core outward, IPS-1 is built to deliver trusted intrusion prevention while minimizing the time, costs, and staff requirements associated with intrusions.

Hybrid Detection Engine
At the heart of IPS-1 is the Hybrid Detection Engine, which uses multiple detection and analysis techniques including vulnerability signatures, exploit signatures, anomaly detection, protocol analysis, operating system and application fingerprinting, smart IP reassembly, multi-element correlation, and dynamic worm mitigation. This robust detection engine enables broad coverage across the threat spectrum, ensuring IT assets are protected against known and unknown threats.

Attack Confidence Indexing
IPS-1 includes a unique feature called Attack Confidence Indexing that enables administrators to direct and calibrate prevention enforcement according to factors such as the threat and asset under attack. Attack Confidence Indexing allows known exploits to be blocked with no concern of blocking critical business traffic.

Multi-alert Correlation
Multi-alert Correlation identifies patterns in alert activity that would otherwise be reported as separate, unrelated events. For example, a single source IP launching multiple attacks across a geographically distributed network would be correlated and raised as a higher priority correlated alert.

Dynamic Worm Mitigation
Dynamic Worm Mitigation recognizes rapidly propagating worms and automatically blocks them from proliferating across your entire network.

Aware, adaptive, and actionable security
IPS-1 automatically recognizes threat points and dynamically protects them against inevitable attack. IPS-1 determines critical vulnerabilities and changes in the network, alerts security managers to these threatened points, and automatically deploys the proper signature sets to protect them before they are attacked.

Ongoing security updates via SmartDefense Services
IPS-1 systems are backed by Check Point SmartDefense™ Services, which provide ongoing, real-time updates and security advisories, helping ensure that Check Point security solutions are continuously updated to stay ahead of today’s constantly evolving threats. Security experts at the SmartDefense Research Center continuously monitor the Internet for new exploits and vulnerabilities and rapidly develop and deliver new protections to help ensure that your network and business are protected from evolving threats.

An intuitive Timeline View makes it easy for administrators to analyze alerts that appeared within a particular time period.

The Management To Solve Data Overload:

Only IPS-1 delivers the management tools required to keep your administrators from drowning in data and starving for critical, actionable information.

Situational Visibility
IPS-1 provides instant awareness of only what’s important—important security events associated with business-critical systems. A real-time graphical interface isolates and highlights critical attacks against essential business systems accelerating the ability to recognize, evaluate, and act upon truly critical events. This “at a glance” monitoring not only makes operators of any skill level more efficient, but a simple mouse click allows them to quickly and easily evaluate critical events, set response, and remediation actions.

Advanced forensic analysis
IPS-1 allows you to quickly sort through an overload of alert information to identify actionable events and their patterns, including the attack source, attack methods, severity, targets, frequency, and many others. From there, a single mouse click provides alert detail information including attack description, effect, importance, remediation, third-party information sources, and more.

Packet capture
View deep forensic analysis and packet capture information of attacks.

Alert flood suppression
Alert flood suppression recognizes and automatically consolidates bursts of alert floods and presents them as a single consolidated alert rather than an unmanageable flood of alerts on your screen.

Top 10 graphs
Delivers quick and exacting graphical views of the “Top 10” attackers, attack targets, protocols, and so on.

The IPS-1 Vulnerability Browser enables vulnerability scanning, viewing, and management from a single dashboard.

Check Point Eventia Analyzer
Automate event correlation for compliance audits with Eventia® Analyzer integration. Additionally, utilize Eventia Analyzer to correlate data from IPS-1 and other security devices to prioritize events for decisive, intelligent action.

Intuitive, centralized management
IPS-1 centralized management delivers simplicity with small deployments and intuitive, powerful centralized control and scalability for large enterprise deployments. Using graphics, automation, and wizard-driven features, IPS-1 saves your security staff time by making management of network security more intuitive and more efficient.

The Flexibility To Meet The Needs Of Today's Dynamic Networks:

IPS-1 delivers the flexibility to meet the ever-changing network dynamics, policy requirements, and deployment needs of today’s network environments.

Multiple deployment modes
IPS-1 sensor appliances have a built-in hardware-level bypass function and can be deployed in passive IDS mode, inline bridge mode, or inline blocking mode with fail severed/unsevered, and can be deployed to meet mixed IDS and IPS chokepoint requirements.

Software-only option
Build your own sensor for deployment, easy staging, or as a quick, hot spare with the IPS-1 software-only option. Leverage the fully hardened and secured Check Point operating system, SecurePlatform™, which combines the simplicity and builtin security of an appliance with the flexibility of an open server. Then you can turn an off-the-shelf server into a high-performance IPS-1 sensor in less than 30 minutes.

Open Signatures and Signature Language:

IPS-1 signatures and its signature language are open, thus allowing you to see how IPS-1 works, and, more importantly, enabling you to meet any special, unforeseen security requirements such as supporting nonstandard protocols.

The IPS-1 intrusion prevention system is based on a three-tier architecture, providing reliability and scalability.

Specifications:

 

	IPS-1 Sensor 50	IPS-1 Sensor 200	IPS-1 Sensor 500
Network location	Remote office/network perimeter	Remote office/ network perimeter	Network perimeter (multisegment)
Performance
Throughput (IPS/IDS)	50/75 Mbps	200/250 Mbps	500 Mbps/ 1 Gbps
Attributes
Monitoring Interfaces	2 x 10/100/1000 Mbps copper	Copper—4 x 10/100/1000 Mbps or Mixed—4 10/100/1000 copper plus 4 1000 Mbps fiber	Copper—8 x 10/100/1000 Mbps or Mixed—4 10/100/1000 copper plus 4 1000 Mbps fiber
Management Interfaces	1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps copper	1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps copper	1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps copper
Form factor	1U	1U	1U
Dimensions, H x W x D in. (cm)	1.703 x 16.8 x 13.4 (4.325 x 42.6 x 37.98)	1.70 x 16.93 x 20 (4.325 x 43.0 x 50.8)	1.70 x 16.93 x 20 (4.325 x 43.0 x 50.8)
Weight, lbs (kg)	15 (6.8)	31 (14.1)	35 (15.9)
Physical characteristics
Redundant power supplies	No	No	No
Hardware-level bypass	Yes	Yes	Yes
Power
Amps	6/3	6.5/3.2	6.7
Voltage (AC)	110/220	100/127	100/127
Input range (AC)	100-240	100-127/ 200-240	100-127/ 200-240
Environmental range
Operating temp.	0°C to 40°C (ambient)	10°C to 35°C	10°C to 35°C
Nonoperating temp.	-20°C to 80°C	-40°C to 70°C	-40°C to 70°C
Relative humidity (nonoperating)	10% to 90% (non-condensing)	10% to 95%, non-condensing at temps of 23°C to 40°C	10% to 95%, non-condensing at temps of 23°C to 40°C
RF emissions	FCC Class A Device	FCC Class A Device	FCC Class A Device
	IPS-1 Sensor 1000	IPS-1 Power Sensor 1000	IPS-1 Power Sensor 2000
Network location	Network perimeter (multisegment)	Network perimeter (multisegment)	Network perimeter (multisegment)
Performance
Throughput (IPS/IDS)	1.3/2.3 Gbps	1/2 Gbps	2/4 Gbps
Attributes
Monitoring Interfaces	8 x 10/100/1000 Mbps copper or 8 x 1000 Mbps fiber	8 x 10/100/1000 Mbps copper or 8 x 1000 Mbps fiber	8 x 10/100/1000 Mbps copper or 8 x 1000 Mbps fiber
Management Interfaces	1 x 10/100/1000 Mbps copper	1 x 10/100 Mbps copper	1 x 10/100 Mbps copper
Form factor	2U	2U	4U
Dimensions, H x W x D in. (cm)	3.36 x 17.5 x 27.5 (8.54 x 44.36 x 69.8)	3.5 x 17 x 22.5 (8.9 x 43.2 x 57.1)	2 @ 3.5 x 17 x 22.5 (8.9 x 43.2 x 57.1)
Weight, lbs (kg)	46 (20.86)	40 (18)	2 @ 40 (18)
Physical characteristics
Redundant power supplies	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hardware-level bypass	Yes	Yes	Yes
Power
Amps	10/5	5	10 (5 per box)
Voltage (AC)	110/220	110/220	100/240
Input range (AC)	100-127/ 200-240	-	-
Environmental range
Operating temp.	10°C to 35°C	0°C to 40°C (ambient)	0°C to 40°C (ambient)
Nonoperating temp.	-10°C to 43°C	-	-
Relative humidity (nonoperating)	10% to 95%, non-condensing at temps of 23°C to 40°C	10% to 90% (non-condensing)	10% to 90% (non-condensing)
RF emissions	FCC Class A Device	FCC Part 15 Class A Subpart B (U.S./Canada)	FCC Part 15 Class A Subpart B (U.S./Canada)

Documentation:

Download the Check Point IPS-1 Datasheet (PDF).