RE: ISS RealSecure/SiteProtector or another IDS/firewall client?

["Teicher, Mark (Mark)" <teicher () avaya com>]

ISS Site Protector is the console 
Proventia A, G, M are the appliances.

The other products in this space also lack the in-depth security
knowledge that some companies in this thread have had for over 10 years.
Usability, Configurability and Deployable product is what makes a vendor
succeed in an enterprise environment

/m

-----Original Message-----
From: Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr [mailto:gwen () reptiles org] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:31 AM
To: Alan Shimel
Cc: 'Benjamin B. Williams'; focus-ids () securityfocus com;
firewalls () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: ISS RealSecure/SiteProtector or another IDS/firewall
client?


On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Alan Shimel wrote:
> Without appearing to prejudice I would recommend you take a look at 
> our border gateway system, easier to use, cheaper than ISS with some 
> interesting new features that ISS does not have

Perhaps I'm missing something - I thought that this list didn't allow
commercial advertisements.

[Ben Wrote:]
> Subject: ISS RealSecure/SiteProtector or another IDS/firewall client? 
> Has anyone had experience with ISS products, particularly their 
> RealSecure line?
>
> We are planning for the upgrade (several years late) to Windows XP in 
> our computer labs, and need a client-based firewall/IDS that can be 
> centrally managed and has a decent logging system.  RealSecure looks 
> like a good choice for us, but I thought I'd ask if anyone's had 
> experience or could recommend an (or several) alternates?

I had bad experiences with ISS RealSecure [and they seem to be calling
it "Proventia" now] when I last used it, but my understanding is that
since then they've changed to using the Black Ice engine, and many
things have improved.

At the time [it's been a year-and-a-bit, so take this with a grain of
salt], it tended to drop packets a lot, have a ton of false positives,
and also be a pain to configure correctly.

> From all accounts, the Black Ice engine should have made a dramatic
difference to the overall performance and capabilities.

cheers!
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