14 DAY TRIAL // Security solutions provider McAfee has released McAfee Network Security Platform NS-series. The new product is a network intrusion prevention system (IPS) appliance based on technology provided by Intel, the company that acquired McAfee in 2011.
Increased scalability, high performance, and more capacity to run next-generation IPS services characterize the new NS-series.
Intel and McAfee engineers have worked together on developing a more compact appliance that delivers 40 Gbps of performance.
“Although the raw throughput of the new McAfee NS-series is impressive by any measure, the real story is the full next generation IPS services at those throughputs,” said Pat Calhoun, senior vice president and general manager of network security at McAfee.
“The IPS industry has been talking about next generation IPS functionality for several years now, but when scalability tests are run, these services are almost always disabled, sacrificing security to boost throughput. These next generation IPS services, such as application visibility, situational and behavioral analysis, are needed to address today’s advanced threats.”