Advanced preemptive protection in a virtual security appliance designed to block threats and attacks on both physical and virtual networks so enterprises can achieve maximum business continuity using minimal resources.

IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System Virtual Appliance:

  • Reduces costly appliance sprawl and boosts consolidation efforts with a virtual platform for security convergence.
  • Extends the same robust intrusion prevention for virtual networks that you expect from traditional networks.
  • Eases security and compliance efforts by helping to detect and block network attacks, and unauthorized network access.
  • Enables cloud computing service providers to deliver segmented security services in multi-tenant virtual environments.
  • Supports VMware ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.0 update 2 & ESXi 4.1, VMware ESX 4.1, VMware Server 2.0.