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The NitroGuard™ Inline Monitoring, Detection & Prevention Engine

Powerful and flexible engine for IDS, IPS

In 2001, NitroSecurity developed the first SNORT® based Intrusion Prevention system, which evolved into Snort-inline, and was integrated into the Snort code base in 2002. Since that time, the technology has evolved into a highly flexible detection and prevetnion engine that provides improved performance while maintaining full comatability with the well-known Snort® syntax.

Using our unsurpassed experience in Snort-based Intrusion Prevention, we've also developed a custom set of powerful signatures, based upon our own in-depth vulnerability research. Every one of over 4,500 signatures is fine-tuned, taking advantage of NitroGuard's performance advantages to provide maximum protection against vulnerabilities, exploits, and other threats. New signatures are updated continually, and pushed to NitroGuard automatically, making it easy to stay current with the latest threats and vulnerabilities. We've also maintained full compatibility with the Snort® signature syntax—allowing you to repurpose existing Snort® signatures or create your own new rules with our integrated signature editor. With this degree of flexibility, NitroGuard is the ideal platform when migrating away from lower-performance Snort® solutions.

Read more about the history of NitroGuard, and the benefits of the NitroGuard IPS engine.

Vendors that invested in their own primary vulnerability research, detection engines and signature creation fared best in our evaluation

Gartner, IPS Magic Quadrant, Feb. 2008

Beyond Snort

NitroGuard is more than a high-powered Intrusion Detection and Prevention engine. NitroSecurity combined our experience with Snort® (IDS) and Snort_inline (IPS) with new innovations in network security and data management to develop the NitroGuard IPS — a powerful network-based Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). These innovations include native network flow collection, flow/event correlation, anomaly detection, and a device manager that also happens to be a complete Security Information and Event Management system.

Benefits of NitroGuard:

  • A powerful, custom IPS engine, from the original developers of Snort_Inline. The engine provides performance improvements up to 250% over Snort.
  • A powerful and lean library of custom IPS signatures, tuned for performance, and fully editable using standard Snort® syntax.
  • Virtual IPS support for signature flexibility and even greater performance. Virtual IPS allows each NitroGuard to run multiple simultaneous instances of the NitroGuard IPS engine, providing specific rule profiles to a network interface, a VLAN, or simply providing additional performance through multi-tasking.
  • Stealth operation, making NitroGuard invisible to intruders, providing added security
  • Integrated Network flow collection for network / event correlation.
  • On-board event and flow storage using the super-high-performance NitroEDB database
  • NitroView ESM — the IPS manager that doubles as a full Unified Security Management system.




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