Sourcefire has announced the general availability of the Sourcefire 3D System 4.9 release. The company has also released its first VMware-based virtual appliances to extend IPS protection to virtualized systems and remote office locations.
Sourcefire’s innovative Adaptive IPS automates key intrusion prevention functions, such as IPS tuning, impact assessment, user correlation and network discovery.
With the 4.9 release, Sourcefire has raised the bar by offering the industry’s first Policy Layering capability, enabling organizations with multiple detection policies to construct them in “building blocks,” making it easy to create and modify policies by geography, site, department, or even by user. Sourcefire has also added a Custom Analysis Widget to its portal-like dashboard affording even greater flexibility, and it has expanded its application detection capabilities by adding new detectors for Oracle, Firefox, Gnutella, Timbuktu, and more.
Along with the 3D System 4.9 release, Sourcefire is now shipping its first VMware-based virtual appliances, including the Sourcefire Virtual 3D Sensor and Sourcefire Virtual Defense Center. Compatible with VMware’s ESX and ESXi platforms, the Virtual 3D Sensor offers IPS protection from 5 to 500Mbps and can be monitored and managed by physical or virtual Defense Center management consoles. These new virtual appliances afford enterprises, managed security service providers (MSSPs), and cloud computing providers with the same Snort-based IPS protection as their physical 3D Sensor counterparts.
Sourcefire’s Virtual 3D Sensor and Virtual Defense Center enable users to secure their virtual environments and to “virtualize” their security implementations for increased operational efficiencies.
Organizations can leverage Sourcefire’s virtual appliances to:
- Monitor traffic between two or more virtual machines (VMs)
- Monitor traffic between physical hosts and VMs
- Monitor traffic between multiple physical hosts
- Help contain the growing problem of VM Sprawl
The Sourcefire 3D System 4.9 release and new VMware-based virtual appliances are available now.
yeah,Sourcefire is now shipping its first VMware-based virtual appliances.