Re: MSSP / IDS Selection

[Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net>]

Are you looking for opinions regarding outsourcing managed security services versus internally.  If your organization 
brings the managed of security services in house, it is very hard to sue an internal person or internal department for 
doing something silly, but if you are being monitored by a managed security service who have service level agreements, 
it is much easier to to sick some lawyerly type people or contract beedy eyed people at them.  The bigger issues with 
MSS/MSP's is quality of service, how much for how little, if you pay this much money, how much do you get in return on 
reporting, analyzt, provisioning, etc.

The biggest concern with outsourcing managed security services is you get what you pay for, unless some offer manager 
tells you different, if they say "plus you got all of this plus a big mean grumbly guy out of NC who will call every 
once in a while to tell you someone is rattling your network door knobs", it might not be so bad then :)



-----Original Message-----
From: KJP <kjp011975 () gmail com>
Sent: Mar 13, 2005 5:51 PM
To: focus-ids () securityfocus com
Subject: MSSP / IDS Selection

I have spent much time researching various MSSP's NetSec, Verisign,
Counterpane, and LURHQ for my company.  After much research we decided
to go with Verisign for numerous reasons.  After selecting Verisign we
began narrowing down pricing.  On a monthly level the pricing looks
ok, until you look at it at a yearly level the pricing starts to get
scary.

We looked into doing the same service internally using Snort.  I
remembered the comercial implentation of Sourcefire and began
researching it.  It appears to offer services that Snort does not, RNA
and Defense Center offer the pieces missing from Snort, plus it
packages the support so I don't need to worry about hardware support,
OS support, etc.

What are the opinions of Snort and Sourcefire versus ISS, Cisco,
Enterasys, Symantec?

Thanks in advance.

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