Re: Testing IDS/IPS Solutions

[Aaron Turner <synfinatic () gmail com>]

On 1/7/06, Andres Riancho <andres.riancho () gmail com> wrote:
> You could use tcpsic for testing how well the appliance handles
> fragmented packets, you could use nikto and nessus to see how many
> attacks each one detects a

Why would you use a vulnerability scanner to see how an UTM detects an
attack?  Vuln scanners nowadays go to great lengths NOT to actually
exploit a vulnerability because people get pissed when their servers
crash.

If you want to see how well an UTM detects someone running nessus
against your network, then by all means use nessus.  But if you want
to see how well it detects an actual attack, then you had better use
traffic which actually looks like an actual exploit.

With that said, the original poster should go look in the list
archives and google.  Someone asks how to test an
IDS/IPS/Firewall/UTM/etc on this list every virtually every week and
it's pretty boring reading the same answers/vendors reminding us that
nothing significant has changed in the last year or so.


--
Aaron Turner
http://synfin.net/

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