Network Box Appliances - IDS

["Brent Stackhouse" <brent.stackhouse () fxfn com>]

Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone has heard of Network Box (www.networkboxusa.com and www.network-box.com) and their all-in-one 
appliances, a la TippingPoint.  I sat through a presentation on their stuff today and figured out that it's a 
"hardened" Linux box with "glue" to hold together a firewall (iptables seems to part of it), IDS (Snort, I think...), 
anti-virus (Kaspersky), content-filtering (SurfControl), VPN (?), and anti-spam (also ?).

Um, okay.  On the one hand I'm glad they're not trying to recreate all the wheels at one time but the glue may in fact 
be the problem.  I've never heard of them before today (I'm mostly a Cisco IDS guy, some Snort, some RealSecure) and 
wondered if anyone has any clue as to whether they're good/bad/ugly.  Right now, they seem to be unknown, which doesn't 
fly too well in security-land...

Thanks in advance.

Brent Stackhouse
Network Security Specialist
FundsXpress Financial Network
Austin, Texas

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