There are many situations in which a security analyst, incident responder or forensic investigator may be called upon to find certain types of information (e.g. certain types of files) that are flowing over the network, such as executable files, for example. In other cases he or she may need to find compound content types with a certain hierarchical structure, such as "Flash files embedded in Microsoft Office files" or "executable files contained in compressed archives".

Many network security systems, like firewalls, "next-generation firewalls", intrusion prevention systems and network forensics systems, claim to offer visibility (and control) over the type of content that's flowing over the network. The Content-Type IQ Test is an easy test you can run yourself that will help you judge how "content-type aware" your network security system really is.

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Watch the Fidelis XPS™ system take the Content-Type IQ test.