<disclaimer> I work for Sourcefire </disclaimer> but I'll try to keep this vendor-neutral
There are lots of boxes now which can, or claim they can, perform 10Gbps or more inspection. Some of that is marketing fluff, some of it is the real McCoy. If you have a need for 10Gbps inspection or higher then you really need to do your homework because the boxes you pay for go for lots of money. If you spend all that money on a solution which doesn't do IPS properly or only do IPS properly well below the expected / rated / claimed throughput - and I accept there are various approaches which do work, and there are those which don't - then you're stuck with it for the foreseeable future. You need to do your homework seriously - check reviews, NSS reports, anything you can lay your hands on. Then, get your hands on a unit to evaluate them. And when you test these devices, make sure you put them in a production environment (passively - I'm not that stupid) to get them to inspect YOUR traffic. Don't rely on sending a PCAP to someone and getting results, because you don't know how they've tested your traffic, or if indeed they have tested it at all, just run basic traffic distribution analysis on it and chucked the resulting figures into a program to see the theoretical throughput. And don't just test for raw IPS throughput - although it's important - make sure the stuff you throw at it is caught - make sure it's proper attempts to exploit vulnerabilities not just Nessus / NMAP scans, make sure your testing rig replays traffic properly and doesn't provide an approximation of TCP traffic, and lots of other things which need to be done properly to test the solution effectively. Raw throughput is only one element. If you don't get proper inspection, then the things are essentially expensive doorstops. On 14 July 2010 16:50, pacific.croc <[email protected]> wrote: > > Juniper also has the newly launched SRX series of appliances which if I am > not wrong can deliver up to 30 Gbps > > > On 7/14/2010 5:02 AM, Jeffrey Chen wrote: > >> I think they've been here for a while now: >> >> Palo Alto Networks PA-4000 IPS/Firewall - 10GB >> Top Layer IPS 5500-1000 - 4GB individually, up to 32GB in clustering >> mode. >> Juniper IDP-8200 - 10GB >> >> Just off top of my head. I think there are few others out there as >> well. >> -- Dave Venman ----------------------------------------------------------------- Securing Your Online Data Transfer with SSL. A guide to understanding SSL certificates, how they operate and their application. By making use of an SSL certificate on your web server, you can securely collect sensitive information online, and increase business by giving your customers confidence that their transactions are safe. http://www.dinclinx.com/Redirect.aspx?36;5001;25;1371;0;1;946;9a80e04e1a17f194
