The SonicWALL Intrusion Prevention Service (IPS) is a high-speed, scalable solution delivering complete protection from application exploits and malicious traffic targeting all points of the network. Featuring a configurable, ultra-high performance deep packet inspection engine and a dynamically updated database with over 1,700 attack and vulnerability signatures, SonicWALL IPS protects against known buffer overflow vulnerabilities in software, as well as various worms, Trojans, application exploits and the use of instant messaging and peer-to-peer applications. The extensible signature language used in the deep packet inspection engine provides a proactive defense against newly discovered application vulnerabilities.
