Trellix Intrusion Prevention System Sensor is a content-processing appliance built for accurate detection and prevention of intrusions, misuse, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Trellix IPS Sensor is specifically designed to handle traffic at wire speed, inspect and detect intrusions with a high degree of accuracy, and flexible enough to adapt to the security needs of any enterprise environment.
When deployed at key network access points, a Sesnor provides real-time traffic monitoring to detect malicious activity and respond to the malicious activity as configured by the administrator.
Sensors are configured and managed using Trellix IPS Manager. The process of configuring a Sensor and establishing communication with the Manager is described in later chapters of this guide.