Doug, If your IPS can provide DDoS protection in addition to the Malicious Content protection you should place the IPS in front of the Checkpoint FW in order to also protect the FW from the DDoS attacks.
If your IPS can only provide Malicious Content protection, you should place it behind the FW. Note: I work for a company that is also selling IPS. Kyriacos (Ken) Georgiades Senior Director, Product Line Management Top Layer Networks, Inc Tel: 508 870 1300 x 231 Cell: 508 783 5988 Fax: 508 870 9797 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.toplayer.com -----Original Message----- From: Doug Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: location of an IPS I'm sorry for this dumb question, which may have been answered many times. Where should one place an TippingPoint Unity 50 IPS device? Behind or in front of a firewall? I have a/the TippingPoint behind a Check Point firewall. Even though we externally and internally port-scanned the firewall and the IPS many times, the activity log did not contain any record of the "attacks". What am I missing here? Any pointers are appreciated. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test Your IDS Is your IDS deployed correctly? Find out quickly and easily by testing it with real-world attacks from CORE IMPACT. Go to http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CoreSecurity_focus-ids_040708 to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
