Cisco Accurate Inline Prevention (AIP) SSM uses:

1) Accurate inline prevention technologies

• offer intelligent, automated, contextual analysis of your data

2) Multi-vendor threat identification

• protects network from policy violations, vulnerability exploitations and anomalous activity through layer 2 through layer 7

3) Unique Network Collaboration

• ehances scalability and resiliency through network collaboration, efficient traffic capture and load balancing.

4) Powerful management, event correlation and support services

• the Cisco Security Monitoring  Analysis and Response System (Cisco Security MARS) identifies, isolates and recommends removal of offending elements.
• the Cisco Incident Control System (ICS) prevents new worm and virus outbreaks.