Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) Reviews

We use Cisco Secure IPS to prevent and detect any suspicious activities or network detections to prevent unwanted applications.

IPS decreases the risk for management.

Our company uses the solution for data functions in banking. It is a backend solution in the server center. 

We analyze traffic and adapt configurations or customize policies to the environment of the IPS itself. 

The solution very effectively provides malware protection and signature-based anomaly detection. We don't need to use any separate tools. 

The end delay layer was recently improved so it is much faster for service functions, training, and workflows. 

Recent improvements to the OS and firewalling are good. 

Basic IPS functionality for intrusion prevention. We have two kinds of deployment. The one that is Inline and the one that is not Inline, where it's just listening. We have like a tap to which its monitoring traffic. For the one that is kind of offline deployment but for the Inline deployment, all traffic goes through it, like for North-South traffic, towards internet to provide some real-time intrusion prevention.

Ir's signature-based. We are also using the anomaly baseline formation, where it links the network, then anything that goes away from the norm is also flagged. Those are the two most valuable features. 

We are working as a system integrator, dealing with various network security products. Currently, I am dealing with Cisco products, including Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS), for different facets of our networking setup. These include UCS servers, NGIPS firewall, Firepower, switching, routing, and AP controllers.

Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS) is deployed on a very limited part of networks due to Cisco's historical lack of investment in education for Firepower. As a result, the market in Pakistan has been captured by Fortinet. All NGFW solutions, including Cisco Secure IPS, are largely similar in most respects. The choice is often dependent on the significance of the brand's name rather than their performance advantage in the security domain.

I use Cisco NGIPS as a firewall for the DMZ zone.

Cisco NGIPS is not secured, and we did not use it in our company for VPN-related purposes. Cisco NGIPS is just to protect data. We use Cisco ASA, which has reached its end-of-sale cycle, and install Cisco NGIPS simply in our environment, which emulates features similar to Cisco ASA.

The NGIPS handles all of the IPS functionality for our security.

The most valuable feature for our cloud-based deployment is the autoscaling.

For our on-premises deployment, clustering is the most valuable.

I think their fingerprints are good in terms of how they whitelist and blacklist. This is because of Talos, which is really awesome. We use that a lot.

The anomaly detection capabilities are awesome.

It's a cheap way of terminating internet circuits so that you don't use expensive routers.

It's mainly deployed on-premises.

The cost is the most valuable feature.