Re: IPS - Cisco vs. McAfee vs. Tippingpoint

["foringer () gmail com" <foringer () gmail com>]

Yes, Radware DefensePro (www.radware.com) is an excellent solution for
DDOS protection. Give it a try. You can find more info about it in
Russian on http://www.64bit.ru/?p=193

2009/7/30 Ronny Vaningh <ronny () netrusion com>
> Joel Snyder schreef:
> > > 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
> I do agree with Joel on this.
>
> Another vendor worth looking at is the radware defensepro.
>
>
> Ronny
>
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