Gradually Activating Protections

The Recommended Profile does not include protections that have a critical impact on performance. However, it is possible that you must disable additional protections with a lower performance threshold to reduce the load on the gateway. If you do not have a detailed performance analysis of the IPS protections, we recommend that you disable high Performance Impact protections and then gradually activate them.

Sample Workflow

1. Disable all IPS protections with that are categorized as Critical or High Performance Impact.
2. Identify the protections that protect high-value assets.
   1. Enable one protection.
   2. Monitor the performance of the gateway.
   3. Make sure that the gateway handles the IPS load.
   4. Do the previous steps again for other High Performance Impact protections.