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Intrusion Prevention System suggestions

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rasczak

Lifer
The company I work part time for is looking into active network monitoring and want some recommendations for a small 15 man business. It will need to be scalable as this place looks like it will grow significantly. I've used the Sourcefire products and wasn't too impressed with them. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
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rasczak said:
The company I work part time for is looking into active network monitoring and want some recommendations for a small 15 man business. It will need to be scalable as this place looks like it will grow significantly. I've used the Sourcefire products and wasn't too impressed with them. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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The first thing you need is a firewall appliance. You can get one to fit that size org for around $1200. That would go right behind your ISP's modem. They each have diff security packages beyond just the hardware firewall, for example web blocking, spam filtering, intrustion prevention.

If you are using a managed switch, you can do something like port security on those. SInce the business is growing, if you dont have a managed switch and security is a priority, get one.

Then you can get yourself a packet sniffer if you actually want to actively monitor like wireshark.
 
brad310 said:
The first thing you need is a firewall appliance. You can get one to fit that size org for around $1200. That would go right behind your ISP's modem. They each have diff security packages beyond just the hardware firewall, for example web blocking, spam filtering, intrustion prevention.

If you are using a managed switch, you can do something like port security on those. SInce the business is growing, if you dont have a managed switch and security is a priority, get one.

Then you can get yourself a packet sniffer if you actually want to actively monitor like wireshark.
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Sorry, I should have stated that they already own a Sonicwall NSA-xxx plus two managed switches. Just found that it has a licensed IPS module so I'm going to go with that. When the place gets bigger and the need arises then we'll look into a standalone IPS appliance.

Thanks for the info guys. 🙂
 
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