An intrusion prevention system (IPS) is designed to detect malicious activities and drop or sanitize the packets while allowing legitimate traffic to access the corporate network. In order to verify an IPS will work properly in a real-world deployment it is critical to measure the IPS' performance and security under the same real-world situations including:

• known vulnerabilities
• attack scenarios
• custom strikes
• legitimate application traffic

If an IPS fails to work properly, even letting a single flow of malicious traffic to pass, can allow viruses, worms and backdoor attacks to gain access to the corporate network and cause a great deal of problems, potentially bringing down the network. Only through proper and realistic network simulation can you measure the resiliency of an IPS.

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