Re: IPS - Cisco vs. McAfee vs. Tippingpoint

[Hurgel Bumpf <l0rd_lunatic () yahoo com>]

Hi Joel,


Right now I have a look at Toplayer, they seem to have long experience in this area. 

I dont know what riverbed did to the mazu but now everything is linked to the traffic optimizer when you look for mazu 
on their page. 

http://www.riorey.com looks very interesting, as they focus on protection from DDOS attacks. 

thank you for your interesting contribution!


Andre



--- Joel Snyder <Joel.Snyder () Opus1 COM> schrieb am Mi, 29.7.2009:

> Von: Joel Snyder <Joel.Snyder () Opus1 COM>
> Betreff: Re: IPS - Cisco vs. McAfee vs. Tippingpoint
> An: "focus-ids () securityfocus com" <focus-ids () securityfocus com>
> CC: "Hurgel Bumpf" <l0rd_lunatic () yahoo com>
> Datum: Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2009, 15:10
> > Hi List,
> >
> > i need to protect a "realtime" website with an inline
> IPS from (D)DOS attacks.
>
> You should not be looking at Cisco, McAfee, or Tippingpoint
> (or, as some have suggested, Sourcefire or Fortinet). 
> None of them specializes in DoS attacks, and all will give
> you fairly poor results if that's your main concern. 
> This is not to say that these aren't great products when
> used as designed; it's just to point out that none of them
> are designed to be very good at DoS protections.  I'm
> sure that the sales droids are happy to tell you that
> they're good DoS boxes but, as you found out, they aren't.
>
> You want to look at products that focus on DoS (and other
> rate-based attacks), probably starting with TopLayer and
> Arbor (someone else already suggested that), but also Mazu
> (now part of Riverbed).  There are also some smaller
> companies that have had success in this space. For example,
> one of our customers bought a DoS mitigation box from Riorey
> (http://www.riorey.com/) and they think it's the bees
> knees.
>
> jms
>
> -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719
> Senior Partner, Opus One   
>    Phone: +1 520 324 0494
> jms () Opus1 COM 
>               http://www.opus1.com/jms




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