ASIC Based IPS

["Siddharth Phadnis" <siddharth.phadnis () impetus co in>]

Hi everyone,

Currently a lot of IPS vendors talk about their devices being very fast 
being based on ASIC. Just out of curiosity, I would be glad if someone 
could point me towards how all the signatures and analysis/blocking 
software works from ASIC and how does that affect the latency which is 
introduced into traffic because I believe the full packet payload will 
have to be inspected in case of application layer anomalies.

Thanks and Regards,
Sid.


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