Re: News, dumbug, prediction rebuttals

[Jason <security () brvenik com>]

You can also observe that these tools are almost always complimented by
commercial solutions in the corporation or backed by a commercial
organization when used as a stand alone product. There are countless
integrators and MSSP organizations for both Snort and Nessus.

In the intrusion detection space Snort is the only product out of
several to have gained critical mass. All of the other projects like
Bro, Prelude, Panoptis, Firestorm... remain small projects

I think to get an adoption rate approaching critical mass and have a
material impact on the market as a whole there will need to be either a
corporation or large active support community of some form backing it up
and driving adoption.

I love concept of OSSIM but I do not think that there is an effective
infrastructure in place to drive adoption and usage on a wide scale.

Thomas H. Ptacek wrote:
> You can say approximately the same things about security scanners and 
> intrusion detection, but Nessus and Snort are still the most popular 
> tools in those spaces.
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> On Dec 24, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Jason wrote:
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> > The biggest hurdle is support. Support at the software level, device
> > level, user level, and ultimately forensic level is lacking. Users and