Reputation based IPS/IDS - Cisco's tested

[Joel Snyder <Joel.Snyder () Opus1 COM>]

Some of you may remember our discussion back in November, 2008 about 
using reputation services in IPS.  (search for subject line "Email 
reputation for inout to IDSs?" if you want to read it).

Anyway, I was given a chance to test Cisco's 7.0 IPS that includes the 
Ironport SenderBase/SensorBase reputation service, and Network World 
just published the test.  Since we discussed the technology (and how no 
one was actually doing it) on this list, here's a link to how Cisco is 
finally doing something about it, and what they're doing:

http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/081009-cisco-intrusion-prevention-system-test.html

Best regards,

jsm

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