topic How many IPS? in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/how-many-ips/m-p/1619775#M65925 <P>We have been using SNORT and now evaluating Cisco IPS sensors. The first question is:</P><P></P><P>- We have 2 ASA 5510 configured as Active/Active failover and have 2 different data centers. How many IPS do we esentially need?</P><P>My guess is 2 - one for each data center. But, then how it will connect to both the firewalls?</P><P>Or, we just have it its interface go into a switchport and monitor all the traffic from various vlans into the destination port to which IPS is connected to?</P><P></P><P>-NG</P> Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:13:05 GMT gnaveen 2019-03-10T12:13:05Z How many IPS? https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/how-many-ips/m-p/1619775#M65925 <P>We have been using SNORT and now evaluating Cisco IPS sensors. The first question is:</P><P></P><P>- We have 2 ASA 5510 configured as Active/Active failover and have 2 different data centers. How many IPS do we esentially need?</P><P>My guess is 2 - one for each data center. But, then how it will connect to both the firewalls?</P><P>Or, we just have it its interface go into a switchport and monitor all the traffic from various vlans into the destination port to which IPS is connected to?</P><P></P><P>-NG</P> Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:13:05 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/how-many-ips/m-p/1619775#M65925 gnaveen 2019-03-10T12:13:05Z Re: How many IPS? https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/how-many-ips/m-p/1619776#M65928 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Actually, it depends very much on your traffic flows.</P><P></P><P>Anyway, assuming all your traffic flows go through ASA,&nbsp; a simple solution would be to install AIM-SSM module, which is the IPS module for your ASA 5510. That way you don-t have to worry to redirect traffic to your IPS, because ASA can do it for you.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:08:15 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/how-many-ips/m-p/1619776#M65928 Eduardo Aliaga 2010-12-22T06:08:15Z