TippingPoint

In the next several days, a report will be published by a small third-party test house that evaluated various intrusion prevention solutions. TippingPoint is a firm supporter of third-party testing. We believe that the validation of our world-class security research and development teams with external resources is a critical component of our goal to deliver industry leading security products. TippingPoint has led the intrusion prevention industry for many years and will continue to do so in the future. Our more than 7,000 satisfied customers depend on us every day to keep their networks secure.

As much as we would like to endorse the report and interspersed commentary, we are unable to do so. There are more than a few discrepancies between the report findings and what our customers have experienced, what we have found in our own testing and other third-party test results. In fact, the results are significantly different from the results we found during paid private testing with this test house a few weeks ago. We made every effort to engage with this test house and understand the gap between the report findings and the various other test findings. We even asked the test house to briefly delay the report until we could work together to reconcile the differences. The test house refused to do so. It’s unfortunate this type of information has been published but we will nonetheless continue to work on behalf of our customers and engage with third-party test houses to validate and help us improve our industry leading solutions.

In the meantime, if you have any questions or comments about the report, you can e-mail me directly at akessler@tippingpoint.com or work with your local sales contact.

Sincerely,

Alan Kessler

President, TippingPoint