How Do You Validate an IPS's Capabilities?
Any vendor can make a claim - performance, accuracy, usability - but can
they prove it? Vendor claims must be validated by objective third-party
testing and customer references.
There are two key components to validating IPS capabilities and performance:
- Understand the Test Methodology - How was the product tested? Was both
performance and security part of the testing criteria? Does the product
conform to government standards?
- Third Party Test Results - For a look at how TippingPoint's IPS ranks in the industry, we invite you to review our results.
- ICSA Labs - In the first-ever certification testing of Network IPS products by ICSA Labs, TippingPoint passed 100 percent of all
security, performance and administrative criteria and achieved a high throughput rating
(3.0 Gbps) and remarkably low latency (84 microseconds). Out of 10 vendors tested, TippingPoint proved to be the only vendor to attain the
certification for multi-gigabit speeds with latency under 100 microseconds.
- NSS Gold Award - The first comprehensive side-by-side
comparison of leading IPS vendors - TippingPoint, ISS, Network Associates,
Netscreen and TopLayer. Only TippingPoint was awarded the Gold Award by
the NSS Group testing labs.
- Common Criteria - The government standard for security.
TippingPoint is the only Common Criteria certified vendor in the industry.
TippingPoint is certified against all four protection profiles - analyzer,
sensor, scanner and system.
- The Tolly Group - Performance and security benchmark.
TippingPoint's IPS demonstrated 100% security accuracy at 2Gbps
with all filters enabled.
- eWeek - "In the wild" testing by eWeek. The
TippingPoint 1200 earned an Analyst's Choice Award, after being tested with
live Internet traffic and subjected to extensive penetration tests and
attacks by Counterpane Internet Security.
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