Chapter 16. Implementing IOS-Based IPS

This chapter covers the following subjects:

• Understanding and installing an IOS-based IPS

• Working with signatures in an IOS-based IPS

• Managing and monitoring IPS alarms

An IOS-based IPS is a software-implemented intrusion prevention system (IPS). Many companies purchase appliances that are dedicated to IPS. For companies with limited budgets, however, an IPS implemented on the perimeter router can provide attack visibility and help thwart attacks that it recognizes. A company may have appliances at their corporate headquarters and can still leverage the IOS-based IPS at branch offices.

This chapter focuses on taking a router that has an IOS feature set that can support IOS-based IPS and configuring ...

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