Re: tippingpoint

["Josh Berry" <josh.berry () netschematics com>]

The Gartner Group started this debate and it has stirred up a lot of
controversy.  Personally, I do not think internal deployments of IDS
systems can ever be compeletely replaced until IPS solutions are moved
into the core of the network (at the switch level), otherwise you miss
machine to machine communication behind and in front of the IPS.  I
believe that TippingPoint is trying to do this with their products but I
am very skeptical as to whether the technology is there to build an IPS
solution capable of handling that much traffic without dropping large
amounts of packets or completely missing exploit.

> Kerry Cox wrote:
>
> > Anyone know anything about TippingPoint.com? Anyone using it or have
> > used it in the past?
> > The Dell sales guy has been talking to management trying to sell them on
> > this intrusion prevention solution from TippingPoint Technologies.
> > Management, of course, is curious and wonders why we even use Snort when
> > we could spend money on a solution rather than have it free. :-P
> > Gotta spend that money, you know.
> > Thanks.
> > KJ
>
> IPS vendors and the trade mags have been talking about how useless IDS
> are lately.  You might want to sniff around on google and the like.  At
> least one mag (lost the name) had an article a month or three back
> stating that IDS would be dead and gone in 2 years.
>
>
>
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Thanks,
Josh Berry, CTO
LinkNet-Solutions
469-831-8543
josh.berry () linknet-solutions com



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