RE : Experiences with Toplayer Attack Mitigator IPS

[Bourque Daniel <Daniel.Bourque () loto-quebec com>]

What you are saying is how can I justify to my boss to install a new
security device after investing in 1 FW, IDS, failover FW, second layer of
fw, antivirus, second level of antivus, third level of antivirus, anti-spam
software, 24x7 monitoring, second e-mail server, encryption, vpn server, ...

It's easy, you scare him...  

:o)

Btw, when the report is available, please post a note here...


-----Message d'origine-----
De : Alvin Wong [mailto:alvin.wong () b2b com my] 
Envoyé : 21 octobre, 2003 04:23
À : Pat Stangler
Cc : focus-ids () securityfocus com
Objet : Re: Experiences with Toplayer Attack Mitigator IPS


Hi Pat,

Thanks for sharing your experiences, i can understand how it would be like
in your situation. According to toplayer guys, toplayer is great at dealing
with DOS attacks. I'm still waiting for the report from the network
intrusion uk guys who are coming out with the IPS shootout comparison soon.
Hopefully, a clearer picture performance wise can be obtained and allow me
to make a recommendation.

Just attended a seminar today where fortinet introduced their products,
seems impressive but how's the comparison with other all-in-one products, as
security vendors are so fond of touting nowadays? 

The thing i can't figure out is how can the enterprise justify purchasing an
all in one solution on top of their existing network infrastructure which
presumably is made up of parts and more of what the integrated solution is
offering?e.g. firewall...vpn..antivirus..

Regards,
Alvin




On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 00:47, Pat Stangler wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <1066388506.2643.130.camel@localhost.localdomain>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am currently looking at toplayer's attack mitigator IPS and looking 
> > for people who are currently utilising toplayer in their 
> > organisations to share their experience. How do you rate the product 
> > so far? Any difficulties and whether it serves it's purpose/product 
> > satisfaction? I've heard stories by the netscreen sales guys whereby 
> > toplayer becomes just another switch in the organisation and not 
> > doing anything much. Of course, i'm sceptical of all this talk which 
> > is why i'm hoping for some 'real world' input from any guys out here 
> > who are deploying it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Alvin
>
> Alvin,
>
> I truly can't say enough about both the Top Layer staff and the 
> products they develop!
>
> Netscreen says it's just another switch? That's so far from the truth 
> it's pathetic!!
>
> I own a small, but large hosting company serving over 3000 clients, 
> domains, etc. Back in July, we were attacked by a "very" sophisticated
DDoS attack from over 800 compromised servers/machines across the globe,
traffic exceeded 80-Mbps a second of traffic, locking up routers, firewalls,
etc. We were down for 3 days while our backbone provider worked diligently
to stop these attacks by placing various filters on the switch directly on
the backbone just before our network interface, nothing seemed to work,
they'd block port 53 and the attack would grab another port instantly so it
was impossible to block this thing with the current network infrastructure,
layer 7 switches, firewalls, routers, etc.
> After a day or so of trying anything and everything, we found the Top 
> Layer folks, made the call and started the process of obtaining an IPS
device. This was approx 6pm CST on a Friday night ( 7pm EST, where the Top
Layer folks are located) Anyway, I was given one of the sales guys cell
number to make arrangements to obtain an IPS unit. We talked a couple of
times, and being in St. Louis/Chicago it was sort of difficult to get a
flight at such late notice to Logan in Boston, they offered to overnight the
device on Monday, but we couldn't go another 3 days of being down waiting
for it, so I got the next flight to Boston on Saturday, Dave from Top Layer
agreed to meet me closer to the airport. I left St. Louis at 10:30am CST and
was back on a plane to Chicago by 4pm or so, landed in Chicago and shot over
to our NOC, I plugged the IPS unit in, set a few filters to mitigate various
protocols and within 20 minutes our network was up at 100%, while still
getting hit with 80Mbps+
 a 
>  second.
>
> I really can't say enough about the Top Layer IPS device. We get 
> attacked on a daily basis for some reason and from dozens of sources 
> and we never see any network latency or deficiencies. You can set 
> custom filters within the control panel to block all of the new 
> exploits/vulnerabilities, etc as well.
>
> If you need further info, let me know and I'll be glad to help out, 
> but as it stands now, I couldn't sleep at night without knowing the 
> IPS was securing our network.
>
> Thanx!
> Pat Stangler
> Chicago Webs
>
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