Intrusion Prevention (IPS)
Detect and block known exploit patterns in network traffic before they reach your servers and applications.
Suspicious network activity should be blocked or investigated quickly
Intrusion prevention watches network traffic for known attack patterns and exploit attempts. It blocks the obvious ones and raises the interesting ones for a human to review - instead of drowning you in logs.
- Adds a protection layer at the network level
- Helps shield exposed and legacy systems
- Improves visibility of what is being probed
- Signatures and rulesets are kept current
- Alerts are triaged, not just archived
- Blocked activity is investigated for patterns
Do network threats get blocked and reviewed, or are they simply logged?
Ask us to assess your IPS and network threat controls.
Understanding ips
IPS sits inside or alongside your firewall and inspects traffic for known exploit signatures, anomalous protocol behaviour and command-and-control patterns. With a managed service, signatures and tuning are kept current - so the rule that should have blocked the next attack actually does.
- Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus
- ISO 27001:2022 Annex A controls
- NCSC 10 Steps to Cyber Security
- CIS Critical Security Controls v8
What we deploy and run
The concrete controls Telappliant configures, manages and reports on.
IPS as run by a UK SOC and engineering team.
IPS signatures kept current via vendor threat intelligence.
Custom rules for your specific applications.
Tuning to remove false positives, not just enable all.
Alerts triaged by the SOC, not buried in a dashboard.
Integration with EDR and SIEM for correlated investigation.
Quarterly signature review and rule cleanup.
Why Telappliant
What you get with us that you don't get with the alternatives.
Delivered by a UK SOC and engineering team, so nothing is handed off to an offshore ticket queue.
Vendor-agnostic. We pick the right tool for your estate, then run it for you.
Mapped to Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001 and the NCSC 10 Steps from day one.
A fixed monthly price, so a fault never turns into a surprise hourly bill.
The outcomes for your business
What changes for your team, your auditors and your insurer.
Block exploit attempts that would slip past basic firewalling.
Buy time when patches are not yet deployed (virtual patching).
Add network-layer evidence to incident investigations.
Tick the IDS/IPS box on every customer questionnaire honestly.
Measured outcomes, not promises
3000+ UK organisations served and 100000+ end users supported.
< 60 minute average response on security incidents.
4000+ tickets resolved every month with measurable first-time-fix rates.
Vendor-fluent, not vendor-locked
We pick the right tool for your estate, then run it for you.
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Use cases
How this capability fits at different scales.
Turn on IPS on the existing firewall with proper tuning, not stock policy.
Standardise IPS policy and reporting across sites.
Integrate IPS telemetry into a managed SOC for correlated detection.
How this applies to organisations like yours
Recent situations we've worked through with UK businesses - find the one closest to yours.
Situation. Magento store hammered by exploit scanners; CPU bills climbing.
Outcome. IPS signatures plus rate-limiting cut malicious traffic by 95%, hosting bill stabilised.
Situation. Need to spot suspicious traffic to PLCs without disrupting production.
Outcome. Detection-mode IPS with industrial protocol awareness; ops team alerted, no false outages.
Situation. Worried about lateral movement after the first endpoint is compromised.
Outcome. Internal-segment IPS spots SMB and RDP abuse, with SOC playbooks for response.
Situation. Guest networks abused for outbound attacks against third parties.
Outcome. Outbound IPS rules and abuse desk integration eliminated takedown notices.
Common questions
Related fundamentals & services
Microsoft 365 Security Hardening
Most SMEs already pay for the controls that cover ips. We help you turn Microsoft 365 Business Premium into a real security baseline - the front door into the wider Cyber Fundamentals portfolio.
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A 30-minute call to scope what good looks like in your estate.