Re: Wishlist for IPS Products

[David Maynor <dmaynor () gmail com>]

Claims don't really mean much to me. After going through the song and
dance sales pitch of most IPS vendors that claim serious protection
but instead only offer a false sense of security I am a bit jaded.
False negatives in Tipping Point are as plentiful as beer in Germany.
You want an example? Take a jpeg and somewhere in it embed an
offending guid from ms03-026 or ms03-039. Copy this jpeg between two
windows machines over file sharing. Viola, tipping point just fired
the sig over the the pic being copied.

If they had real protocol parsing this would not be possible.


On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:28:58 -0400, idswizard () earthlink net
<idswizard () earthlink net> wrote:
> > Only way to do this and not create tons of false postives is true protocol
> parsing. This knocks out most IPS vendors like Tipping Point.
>
> That is an interesting statement.  Tipping Point claims to only have one
> customer experience a false positive and it was based on Chat traffic.
> During a SANS webcast, Los Alamos National Laboratory seemed to back that
> data (https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=90514).
>
> What test(s) have you done showing Tipping Point is prone to false positives
> based on their signatures/filters?
>
>
>
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