Trellix IPS Sensors are high-performance, scalable, and flexible content processing appliances built for the accurate detection and prevention of intrusions, misuse, malware, denial of service (DoS) attacks, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Sensors can be physical or virtual appliances. IPS Sensors are specifically designed to handle traffic at wire-speed, efficiently 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 Sensor provides real-time traffic monitoring to detect malicious activity and respond to the malicious activity as configured by the administrator.
Once deployed and the communication is established, Sensors are configured and managed through the Manager server.
In this chapter, the term Sensor applies to both physical as well as Virtual IPS Sensors unless otherwise specified.
In this guide, the term Sensor resources refers to the monitoring ports, interfaces, and subinterfaces of a physical or a Virtual IPS Sensor.