FVC and TippingPoint complete Mid East seminar tour on latest IPS and NAC solutions

The IPS live-demonstration during the seminar provided a platform to discuss in detail on what goes on in creation of a Digital Vaccine Filter and how the Zero-day protection filters were useful to organizations looking for proactive protection. The seminars were part of an initiative to provide stronger local support for FVC's partners across the region.

'We continually look at ways to support our partners and their customers,' said K.S. Parag, Regional Director for FVC. 'The key is to work together towards a common benefit for all involved. We are committed to our partners in way of introducing new best-of-breed products and solutions; and providing marketing, sales and technical support.'

TippingPoint's Intrusion Prevention Systems provide Application Protection, Performance Protection and Infrastructure Protection at gigabit speeds through total packet inspection. Application Protection capabilities provide fast, accurate, reliable protection from internal and external cyber attacks. Through its Infrastructure Protection capabilities, the TippingPoint IPS protects VoIP infrastructure, routers, switches, DNS and other critical infrastructure from targeted attacks and traffic anomalies. TippingPoint's Performance Protection capabilities enable customers to throttle non-mission critical applications that hijack valuable bandwidth and IT resources, thereby aligning network resources and business-critical application performance.

Mohamed Ali, Regional Sales Director, Saudi Arabia & Egypt for TippingPoint added, 'TippingPoint's solutions provide organisations with a security solution that ensures their ongoing efficiency and greatly reduces ownership costs. It eliminates the expense of having onsite personnel to fine-tune the devices or load the latest filters.'

Neeti Rodrigues, Regional Sales Director, GCC (excl KSA) for TippingPoint said 'Recently, TippingPoint announced pre-emptive, zero day protection for a new Microsoft Windows Animated Cursor vulnerability, two years prior to its discovery and disclosure. It demonstrates that we remain the undisputed leader in providing filters not only for the maximum vulnerabilities but also far ahead of time reinforcing our value-add to customers looking for pro-active protection.'

The TippingPoint NAC solution enables enterprises to enforce device and user policies to ensure endpoint compliance and granular network compliance even after initial network entry. This solution goes beyond traditional pre-check and post-check NAC solutions by linking device and user policies to fine-grained, continuous traffic control made possible only by an IPS.

By integrating device, user and IPS-based traffic classification and enforcement, enterprises have much greater control over network access and usage, while reducing network security cost and complexity. Network and security personnel have unprecedented control over the entire network perimeter with integrated policy-based visibility and control of users, devices and traffic flows.

While network access control combined with the IPS is the ideal protection path, the TippingPoint NAC Policy Enforcer and Policy Server can also be deployed without an IPS.