The Juniper Networks intrusion prevention system (IPS) feature detects and prevents attacks in network traffic.
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IPS Signature
It contains definitions of different objects, such as
- attack objects,
- application signature objects, and
- service objects,
that are used in defining IDP policy rules.
The IPS signature database includes more than 5000 signatures and more than 1200 protocol anomalies.