Hyderebad: Hyderabad-based Intoto Software Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) of network-centric secure gateway software, has announced that its trade mark 'IntruPro intrusion prevention system' (IPS) software version 3.0 powered by Intoto's Inline IPS technology has received the NSS approved status award.

The company received the award after its product received NSS testing approvalsf or security effectiveness, performance, stability and usability. The NSS Group is the world's foremost independent security testing facility with British headquarters, and security and network infrastructure testing facilities in the South of France.

NSS test procedure includes a comprehensive test suite to exercise effectiveness of inline IPS devices in the most real-world environment. The test stresses on different areas of IPS system such as the detection engine, evasion, stateful operation, detection / blocking performance under load, latency, stability and reliability and management.

The NSS Group is the world's foremost independent security testing facility. With headquarters in Britain, and security and network infrastructure testing facilities in the South of France, the NSS Group offers a range of specialist IT, networking and security-related services to vendors and end-user organizations worldwide. The NSS Group security testing laboratories are available to vendors and end-users for fully independent testing of networking, communications and security hardware and software.