Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued) vs. Powertech Exit Point Manager for IBM i

IPS sensors are more suited for companies that do not have visibility into their network with third-party analyzing tools. Scenarios would be to place IPS sensors at the perimeter firewalls mainly. IPS sensors are less appropriate for companies that have third-party analyzing tools that will mitigate vulnerabilities and malicious traffic and activities already.

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As specified earlier, the product is very helpful to monitor the FTP, ODBC, JDBC, SQL and remote commands. What queries are coming to the system and who is issuing the commands so that we can analyze the and restrict their access if its not required. It helped us catch [a lot of] unauthorized users.

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• Identifies and blocks malicious traffic.
• Detects unwanted traffic and allows your company to be proactive, let alone reactive.
• Comprehensive Threat protection allows companies to adjust thresholds and policies at will.

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• Restricted FTP users
• ODBC/JDBC connection restrictions
• Exit Point Security Performance, Flexibility

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• The web GUI is somewhat slow.
• Sometimes difficult to adjust policies.
• Fail open feature may not work properly all the time.

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• Adding a user to the exit point manger and then specifying the same user to restrict for particular service is bit complex i feel, instead of that making only one entry to restriction would be good.
• All Features are good
• Can maintain all systems from central system.

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Cisco TAC has been great at helping with configurations and issues that may arise

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IPS sensors provides the necessary network visibility my company needs to satisfy its security appetite. By doing so, we have been able to stay compliant and up to date with today's network security requirements and procedures. We are able to be proactive with vulnerabilities and reactive to malicious traffic and intrusions in our day to day operations.

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Helpsystems was one of the best leading third-party service provider in the Market for IBM i. Since we are already customer for the Helpsystems and their support is awesome. We need the best products in market and Helpsystems has all the good tools that suits to my environment. All we need is the best support when its required which Helpsystems support team doing at its best.

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• Provided less need to purchase third party analyzing tools.
• Needed more dedicated staff to build/review/and maintain policies and such.
• Answers companies need for network security.

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• Controlling of unauthorized access
• Monitoring the exit point manger logs to restrict data access only to authorized people.
• Monitor of FTP, ODBC, SQL, Remote Commands and block attacks on IBM i DB2

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