Cyber-threat environment becoming increasingly severe

Today's cyber-threat environment is increasingly severe, compounded by the emergence of new types of attacks.

This is according to TippingPoint, an intrusion prevention company which also provides IPS-secured (intrusion prevention system) network. They say the situation is worsened by the shrinking time between the discovery of vulnerabilities and the development of ways to exploit them, plus the dissolving network perimeter.

Real-time threat intelligence

To prevent networks from malicious attacks and vulnerabilities, both outside the perimeter and inside the network core, TippingPoint has developed ThreatLinQ. The company claims that this is "a real-time, global security intelligence portal that enables customers to assess the evolving threat landscape and to prescribe specific intrusion prevention system (IPS) policy changes".

"Most organizations simply aren't equipped to monitor the changing threats in the wild, analyze the data and revise security policies in a timely manner," said Sugiarto Koh, regional sales director, ASEAN, TippingPoint. "ThreatLinQ gives our customers the ability to anticipate threats and adjust their IPS policies based on their network security requirements."

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