Re: New White Paper on Selecting an IPS

["hanxin" <hanxin () mail sc cninfo net>]

Hi Joel,

Great work,Thank you.

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> I wrote an Opus One white paper on how to select a Network-based IPS which is 
> now available:
>
> http://www.juniper.net/solutions/literature/white_papers/select_ips.pdf
>
> Juniper is hosting the white paper and did the layout & graphics, although there 
> is no Juniper-specific content in the paper (and Juniper didn't have editorial 
> control).  It discusses signature-based IPS, rate-based IPS, and NBAD-ish IPS as 
> options.  Because most of the products out there are signature-based (and 
> because of space constraints), I mostly concentrate on signature-based IPS.
>
> The goal of the white paper is to lay out a methodology for deciding what kind 
> of IPS (if any) is right for your network, and then giving a series of steps to 
> go through to decide what type of IPS is the right one for your network.
>
> Here's the first paragraph:
>
> Executive Summary: Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) can
> be extremely effective pieces of your overall network security strategy.
> However, the IPS marketplace is filled with products that all do very different
> things and are suitable for very different environments. Therefore, buyers
> beware, because simply throwing any IPS into the network without careful
> consideration can be a costly error, both in terms of capital outlay and
> operational provisions.
>
> jms
>
>
> -- 
> Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719
> Senior Partner, Opus One       Phone: +1 520 324 0494
> jms () Opus1 COM                http://www.opus1.com/jms
>
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