NSS Labs’ Andrew Braunberg, Jason Pappalexis, and Thomas Skybakmoen provide you insights on why to invest in NGIPS technology highlighting the need for independent testing and what drives the NGIPS market.

1. NGIPS: MARKET DRIVERS,
ARCHITECTURE, AND NSS
TEST RESULTS
NSS
Labs
Research
November
12,
2015
Jason
Pappalexis
Research
Director
Andrew
Braunberg
Research
VP
Thomas
Skybakmoen
Research
VP

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NSS Labs
The
World’s
Leading
Security
Insight
Company

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NSS Labs Experts
Andrew
Braunberg
Research
VP
Jason
Pappalexis
Research
Director
Thomas
Skybakmoen
Research
VP

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Agenda
• The
Need
for
Independent
Testing
• NGIPS
Definition
• Market
and
Market
Drivers
• Architectural
&
Deployment
• NGIPS
Group
Test
• Methodology
• Results
• NGIPS:
Why
invest
in
this
technology?
• Q&A

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Trust me … I'm a security vendor

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Unmatched Security Testing Expertise

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NGIPS Defined
Key
Next
Generation
Characteristics
Traditional
IPS
Plus:
• Application
Control
• User
Identification
• Threat
Intelligence
Integration
User
Identification
Application
Control
Reputation

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State of the Market (CY2014)
• Market
Size
• US$1.40B
in
2014
• US$1.46B
in
2015
(NSS
est.)
• Current
buyers
• Large
Enterprise
made
up
46%
of
sales
in
2014
• Evolving
market
requirements
PLACEHOLDER
for
Pie
Chart
with
Market
Share
leaders

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Three Key Market Drivers
1. Security
effectiveness
• Increasingly
complex
threat
landscape
2. Improve
security
workflow
• Integration
with
signatureless products,
SIEM,
incident
response
3. Architecture
• Internal
data
center
traffic
+
Perimeter

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• Deployment
options
• Complexity
• Protocol
support
• Network
and
Endpoint
• Adjacent
technology
Architecture & Deployment

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Group Test Results : Definitions
TCO
• Purchase
• Maintenance
-­‐ incl.
subscription
fees
• Administration
– incl.
installation
and
tuning
Security
Effectiveness
• Equation:
(Exploit
Block
Rate)
x
(Evasions)
x
(Stability
and
Reliability)
TCO
per
Protected
Mbps
• Equation:
(3-­‐Year
TCO)/(Security
Effectiveness
x
NSS
Tested
Throughput)

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Group Test Results: Protection and TCO
Map
TCO
per
Protected
Mbps
against
Security
Effectiveness
• Further
up
and
right
is
best
— results
can
be
surprising!

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Group Test Results: Breakdown
• Security
• NGIPS
protection
ranged
from
86.6%
to
99.5%
for
overall
security
effectiveness.
• Average
Security
Effectiveness
Rating
96.3%
• Evasion
effectiveness 100%
• Performance
• Throughput
2,973
Mbps
to
24,194
Mbps
• Total
Cost
of
Ownership
(TCO)
• 3-­‐year
TCO
ranged
from
$68,596
to
$489,236
• Average
3-­‐year
TCO
was
$253,213
• TCO per
Protected
Mbps
• TCO
per
Protected
Mbps
ranged
from
5
to
25
• Average
TCO
per
Protected
Mbps
was
US$20

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2015 NGIPS Group Test Results
NGIPS v2.0

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NGIPS: Worth the Investment to You?
• Architecturally
straightforward
• Signature-­‐based
+
Signatureless technologies
• Designed
to
perform
at
line-­‐rate
• Total
cost
of
ownership
• Becoming
part
of
overall
platform:
Perimeter,
Internal,
Agent

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In-­‐Depth Research
Market
Analysis
Buyers
Guide
Company
Reports
Technical
Briefs Test
Reports
Comparatives
Reports
• Security
Value
Map
• TCO
• Security
• Performance
Product
Test
Reports

17. Thank you for your interest!
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