Access policy matching and IPS autonomous

[Stephan_Lache]

Hey Checkmates,

i have a question regarding access policy matching in conjunction with IPS ( autonomous mode)

I have blocked traffic from an known malicious IP in an access policy.

I can see that the relevant traffic is dropped but nevertheless the traffic hits the IPS blade.

Is this a expected behavior?

I thought that no further inspection is going on, when the traffic is dropped by the access rule.

Thanks in advance

Stephan