Abstract

Trustwave commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its TS- 1000 High-Speed Intrusion Prevention Appliance to determine its performance levels along with its security effectiveness.

The Tolly Group measured the Layer 3 zero-loss (􀀁0.001% acceptable packet loss) throughput and latency of the TS-1000 in firewall only mode, with intrusion prevention active, and while under attack. Engineers also measured the TS-1000’s support for concurrent TCP connections and its connection setup rate. Finally, engineers subjected the TS-1000 to a variety of security attacks and identified the product’s effectiveness at protecting servers.

Tests were conducted in March 2008.