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Trellix Intrusion Prevention System Overview

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Trellix Intrusion Prevention System is a combination of network appliances and software that accurately detects and prevents intrusions, denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and network misuse. Trellix Intrusion Prevention System combines real-time intrusion detection and prevention for the most comprehensive and effective network security system.

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Item

Description

1

Trellix Intrusion Prevention System Manager

2

Trellix Intrusion Prevention System Sensor

3

Trellix IPS Update Server

4

Web clients accessing the Manager server

5

Manager Disaster Recovery (MDR) server

6

Alert notification - email, pager, and script generation