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Cisco IPS Performance

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Overview Measuring and testing performance on Intrusion Prevention Systems requires both an understanding of the characteristics of the network environment targeted in the IPS deployment, as well as an awareness of the challenges in building an effective test methodology for a sophisticated traffic inspection technology. This paper describes the Cisco IPS philosophies and methodologies for characterizing IPS performance.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2007	Downloads	4
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, Intrusion Detection Systems

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