Re: Intrusion Prevention Firewall

[Crispin Cowan <crispin () wirex com>]

Marcus J. Ranum wrote:

> I suspect you are referring to "intrusion prevention" - which is a
> hot new marketing term but basically everything that's being billed
> as "intrusion prevention" is just firewalling + antivirus with
> a bit of fresh paint on it.
... and that bugs me, because I've been trying to characterize 
Immunix-style defenses (StackGuard, FormatGuard, RaceGuard, etc.) as 
"intrusion rejection", which really means something: applications that 
abort themselves when they detect that they're being hacked. Now these 
dorky marketing people have ruined a perfectly good buzz phrase by 
making it synonymous with "firewalls" :-(

Crispin

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Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com
Security Hardened Linux Distribution:       http://immunix.org
Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html


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