RE: Network hardware IPS

["Davis, Scott L" <Scott.Davis () NAV-INTERNATIONAL com>]

Anybody have any experience or feedback on the IntruShield product,
especially since being acquired by NAI? They gave my company a sales pitch
yesterday. They claim a "92% reduction in false positives". Of course the
sales guy could not tell me what that was a reduction of, whether over their
own previous products or a specific manufacturer, what type of environment
etc. He did throw Greg's name and Neohapsis around quite a bit, to the point
of quoting Greg as thinking the IntruShield 4000 is the best inline product
in their market space. So any feedback, especially anything Mr. Shipley may
feel comfortable adding, would be greatly appreciated.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Nimesh Vakharia [mailto:nvakhari () mil sunysb edu]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:49 PM
To: virus () securitywizardry com; alvin.wong () b2b com my;
focus-ids () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Network hardware IPS



Ah you missed ipEnforcer from iPolicy Networks. It sits inline (supports
offline as well) and is purpose built with network processors
(100Mbps-5Gbps, FE, GE, OC-48). Ability to stop attacks in real time (more
creative ways than fw hardening which we feel should not be a front-line
defense mechanism use by an IPS) and also has DDoS detection and
mitigation (active prevention) abilities. In addition the ipEnforcer
supports other applications like FW, VPN, URL Screening, Surveillance etc.
at those speeds. For more information see our website at ipolicynet.com If
anyone is interested, we can talk offline as well. (In case it was not
clear, I work for iPolicy Networks)

thanks,

Nimesh.


-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Cuff [Talisker]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:00 AM
To: Alvin Wong; focus-ids () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Network hardware IPS


Hi Alvin,
You may want to check out the salient details I collated for all the IPS
(Inline IDS) some time ago.  As far as I know it's still current though
they
seem a little thin on the ground


Hogwash - Is this still current?
Inline_Snort - Not sure if I found the official Home page
Intrushield
OneSecure - The site seems to be down (bites tongue about IPS)
RealSecure Guard - First one I played with
UnityOne
BorderGuard

I'm hoping some of the spotters or even Vendors (I'm not proud) can
highlight some that I'm missing.  If you hear of any please let me know!
take care
-andy
Talisker Security Tools Directory

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alvin Wong" <alvin.wong () b2b com my>
To: <focus-ids () securityfocus com>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 9:30 AM
Subject: Network hardware IPS


> Hi,
>
> I'm interested to find out if anyone can share their experiences or
> recommend a network hardware IPS that is deployed in front of the
> gateway which is able to detect attack signatures and at the same time,
> actively blocking out these attacks, alerting me in the process.
>
> This would be different from a passive IDS which depends on correlating
> the logs every time an alert pops up. An ideal solution would be to be
> able to detect the patterns and prevent them automatically, can a
> network IPS do this?
>
> I understand that it is possible in some IDS to do a TCP reset after one
> had confirmed that the connection is not acceptable, can anyone explain
> whether an IDS that can do this be actually "active" as opposed to
> passive?
>
> It would also be interesting if there could be some amount of trend
> analysis built in which can review the destination/source ip traffic
> over time, which can be used to identify particular boxes which are
> easily targeted, which would mean that more work needs to be done for
> that box.
>
> Regards,
> Alvin
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Intrusion Prevention and Traffic Shaping Technology to:
 - Instantly Stop DoS/DDoS Attacks, Worms & Port Scans
 - Automatically Control P2P, IM and Spam Traffic
 - Precisely Define and Implement Network Security & Performance Policies
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Captus Networks IPS 4000
Intrusion Prevention and Traffic Shaping Technology to: 
 - Instantly Stop DoS/DDoS Attacks, Worms & Port Scans
 - Automatically Control P2P, IM and Spam Traffic
 - Precisely Define and Implement Network Security & Performance Policies
FREE Vulnerability Assessment Toolkit - WhitePapers - Live Demo 
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Captus Networks IPS 4000
Intrusion Prevention and Traffic Shaping Technology to: 
 - Instantly Stop DoS/DDoS Attacks, Worms & Port Scans
 - Automatically Control P2P, IM and Spam Traffic
 - Precisely Define and Implement Network Security & Performance Policies
FREE Vulnerability Assessment Toolkit - WhitePapers - Live Demo 
http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/CaptusNetworks_focus-ids_000101
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