IPS executive summary

MVX correlated IPS—Total number of IPS alerts. The platform generates an IPS alert for a traffic flow that matches one or more IPS rules and has also been correlated with one or more zero-day attacks confirmed separately by the MVX engine. Another section of the report provides more detail. See Top 10 MVX‑correlated IPS events.

IPS Critical—Number of IPS events of threat severity level 7 ‑ 10, as shown in the Hosts tab, Alerts tab, and the IPS Events page by an icon such as the following:

IPS Major—Number of IPS events of threat severity level 4 ‑ 6, as shown in the Hosts tab, Alerts tab, and the IPS Events page by an icon such as the following:

IPS Minor—Number of IPS events of threat severity level 1 ‑ 3, as shown in the Hosts tab, Alerts tab, and the IPS Events page by an icon such as the following:

# of Attackers—Number of unique attackers associated with IPS events.

# of Victim Hosts—Number of unique victims associated with IPS events.

Rule Description—Name of the IPS rule that detected an event.

Attack Count—Number of events detected by the rule.

IPS Rule Description—Name of an IPS rule that detected an MVX-correlated event.

# of MVX Correlated IPS Events—Number of MVX-correlated events detected by the rule.

Attacker—IP address of an attacker host found by IPS rules.

# of Victims—Number of victim hosts associated with the attacker host.

Victim—IP address of a victim host found by IPS rules.

# of Rules Matched—Number of IPS rules that matched attacks on the victim.