RE: IPS (was: Sources for Extranet Designs?)

[Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:

> > Some of the network IPS vendors are profiting from the need to throttle undesirable traffic (file sharing) at 
> > universities.
>
> Anyone on the list care to corroborate this?

I've heard of some people throwing these up to try to stave off the RIAA
lawyers- but I think that makes it more of an anti-lawsuit technology than
a security technology- basically it's a shoring up of the bad apple
defense- if by throttle, he means "prevent," otherwise everyone I know is
using firewalls or routers to do bandwidth limitation.

[The folks who'd buy this are probably the same ones who's silly content
filters blocked your original message based on one keyword, s__y!]

Paul
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