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Leading Education Institution Deploys Attack Mitigators to protect network from malicious attacks
Source: Cohesive Communications - Posted April 11th, 2005 10:57 AM EDT
Top Layer Networks (www.TopLayer.com), the global leader for intrusion prevention, has today announced that the University of Westminster has deployed the Top Layer Attack Mitigator IPS 5500-500 to address the security concerns from various rate and content based attacks as the institution becomes increasingly dependent on the web.
The University of Westminster is one of the most popular in the UK with over 20,000 students and hundreds of staff and visiting academics. Increasingly more of the information resources to staff and students were conducted online and as a result, protection from the network being compromised from HTTP worms, zero day exploits, denial of service attacks, and other cyber threats was paramount.
" The size of the network and the high bandwidth availability made the network susceptible to attacks from both inside and out which was a huge concern as we grew our Internet presence," said Judie Ayoola, Network Security Officer, University of Westminster. " Malicious activities within and originating from our network, such as work propagation could seriously affect the performance of the network which in our current 24/7 environment is considered unacceptable. "
To address these concerns, the University deployed the Top Layer IPS 5500-500 platform, which comfortably performs deep packet inspection on all the University's network traffic at high speeds with 100% accuracy. " Top Layer's IPS 5500-500 is capable of doing deep packet inspection on all traffic at 60K connections/sec with flow table capacity of 2 Million sessions with excellent detection rates reducing false positive events, " continued Ayoola.
" The University of Westminster is one of the first organisations to fully embrace the concept of pure IPS, providing it the ability to detect and block illegal rate and content based traffic ensuring network integrity whilst maintaining availability and performance," said Micheal Reynolds, Top Layer.
" Deploying Top Layer's Attack Mitigator has meant infections are easily identified, contained and remediated immediately allowing the systems to return back to normal in a very short time," concluded Ayoola.
About the Top Layer Attack Mitigator IPS 5500
The Attack Mitigator IPS 5500 family offers the strongest levels of Network IPS protection, performance and reliability on the market today. By improving upon the most powerful characteristics of stateful firewall technology and intrusion detection systems, Top Layer has developed the IPS 5500 in order to protect against attacks in real-time with minimal interruption of legitimate traffic. Top Layer executes high performance, non-disruptive deep packet inspection and analysis coupled with intelligent blocking of attacks through TopFireT second-generation ASIC technology and TopInspectT Deep Packet Inspection. To learn more about the Attack Mitigator IPS 5500, see our web site at www.TopLayer.com, or contact sales@TopLayer.com
About Top Layer Networks, Inc.
Founded in 1997, Top Layer Networks (www.TopLayer.com) develops network security solutions that enable enterprises worldwide to protect their infrastructure and critical online assets from cyber-threats. The Company's patented, ASIC-based products are engineered to deliver accurate and reliable protection mechanisms while operating as robust in-line network security devices. Top Layer Networks is headquartered in Westboro, Massachusetts with sales and support presence in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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