For your Trellix IPS to properly detect and protect against malicious activity, the Manager and Sensors must be frequently updated with the latest signatures and software patches available. Thus, the Trellix IPS team constantly researches and develops performance-enhancing software and attack-detecting signatures that combat the latest in hacking, misuse, and denials of service (DoS). When a severe-impact attack happens that cannot be detected with the current signatures, a new signature update is developed and released. Since new vulnerabilities are discovered regularly, signature updates are released frequently.
New signatures and patches are made available to customers via Trellix IPS Update Server (Update Server). The Update Server is a Trellix IPS owned and operated file server that houses updated signature and software files of Managers and Sensors for customer installations. The Update Server securely provides fully automated, real-time signature updates without requiring any manual intervention.
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Communication between the Manager and the Update Server is SSL-secured.