3Com is a leading global provider of enterprise and small-business networking solutions that help organisations achieve their business and networking objectives. The company has had a major impact on computer networking since the creation of Ethernet in the 1970s. 3Com’s mission is to provide customers worldwide with high-quality, low-cost networking infrastructure solutions that enable the convergence of applications and emerging technologies into the network.
A division of 3Com, TippingPoint, introduced the first Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) in 2002 and is the recognized leader in this field, delivering in-depth application, infrastructure and performance protection. The 3Com TippingPoint™ IPS safeguards even the network’s most active mobile users, stopping viruses, worms, Trojan horses and spyware before they can disrupt business. Unlike legacy methods of security detection that let the first incident happen, the IPS identifies, prevents or quarantines the problem before it infects the rest of the network—all in real time. This next-generation approach provides unmatched network-based security with unrivaled cost-effectiveness and ultra-high reliability, performance and scalability. 3Com is constantly integrating new security features and functionality into the network infrastructure to enable customers to remain protected from emerging threats.
Security Brigade offers the following 3Com Products.
3Com® Unified Security Platform: delivers unprecedented threat protection— safeguarding the network from attacks and misuse, and helping prevent business disruptions, revenue loss and damage to an organisation's reputation caused by security breaches.
3Com® Embedded Firewall: solution adds a critical layer of centrally managed, tamper-resistant protection against network attacks and unauthorized access. The 3Com® Embedded Firewall solution extends centrally managed, hardware-enforced security to notebooks, desktops, and servers across the organisation—inside and outside the network perimeter. This innovative combination of policy server software and firewall card hardware safeguards network assets with superior tamper-resistance that software-only firewalls can't match.
The 3Com® Switch 8800 Firewall Module: is an affordable stateful security firewall designed to protect enterprises from attacks originating inside and outside of their networks.
TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System (IPS): delivers the most powerful network protection in the world. The TippingPoint IPS is an in-line device that is inserted seamlessly and transparently into the network. As packets pass through the IPS, they are fully inspected to determine whether they are legitimate or malicious. This instantaneous form of protection is the most effective means of preventing attacks from ever reaching their targets.
TippingPoint Core Controller: is deployed as a 'bump-in-the wire' network element for up to three 10Gbps network links. Traffic entering the Core Controller is intelligently flow balanced to a bank of TippingPoint IPS's where traffic inspection and enforcement are performed. Malicious and unwanted traffic is blocked, and clean traffic is returned to the Core Controller for distribution to the appropriate 10Gbps egress link, allowing organisations to scale security traffic inspection and enforcement.
TippingPoint Network Access_Control: solution enables enterprises to enforce device and user policies to ensure endpoint compliance and granular network compliance even after initial network entry. TippingPoint NAC provides multiple enforcement options, including inline enforcement with the TippingPoint NAC Enforcer, and out-of-band options using 802.1x or DHCP, with support for various vendors and network topologies.