CCIE Professional Development Series Network Security Technologies and Solutions

Chapter 20. Network Intrusion Prevention

Today, viruses, worms, and several other invading malicious codes and programs proliferate widely on the Internet. With the environment becoming increasingly hostile, networks are easy targets because the infection can spread across the network rapidly. With this growing threat, networks need to be designed and equipped with sophisticated intelligence to diagnose and mitigate threats in real-time.

Cisco Network Intrusion Prevention provides self-defending solutions that offer networkwide protection and mitigation techniques. It has the intelligence to accurately detect, analyze, classify, and mitigate malicious traffic in real-time, offering comprehensive protection for a wide range of network intrusions ...