Intrusion Detection & Prevention

Compliance Driving Intrusion Prevention (IPS)

Compliance is one of the most cited reasons customers tell us they want better IPS capability. Drivers differ according to industry sector, with financial services it’s protecting critical servers and sensitive data. For central government and local authorities it’s maintaining public confidence and preventing mass security breaches.  With retail they need to comply with PCI DSS standard and prevent any leakage of cardholder data.

One key client of Maxima needed an IPS solution for their network. The system gets over the traditional flood of false positives and with careful tuning, allows them to focus of the handful of serious security events that could damage their business out of the millions of events the sensors pick up on raw form.

Whatever the driver maxima has solutions from Sourcefire and Fortinet  to address compliance needs.

The cost of doing nothing

IPS technology is not a silver bullet, it is best deployed with other internal controls, such as good password management, segregation, secure remote access and other policies. When considering IPS, customers should weigh up the cost of doing nothing. PCI fines for non-compliance for instance are easy to determine. More difficult to estimate is the damage to brand reputation of a security breach and cost and time of the cleanup operation afterwards.