Re: Suggestion for IDS

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:37:38 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu 
wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:01:34 EDT, "J. Oquendo" said:
>
> > While I do agree with the statement made "Quite frankly, anybody who
> > already has a PIX installed and wants to install an IPS needs to quantify
> > *exactly* what protection the PIX is failing to provide before they go
> > shopping for anything" to a degree, I also disagree with that statement
> > since it eludes to the thinking that solely a PIX will save your ass. It
> > won't, nor will any other firewall, nor will any other product combined
> > with any OTHER product and so on.
>
> Obviously, the original poster isn't thinking that a PIX will save their
> ass, because they're in the market for something in addition :)
>
> They should be figuring out *why* they need more protection (quite
> frankly, for many places, a *properly configured and maintained* PIX is
> quite sufficient),

Not only was the PIX (for us) not sufficient, it wasn't robust enough. 
We're ditching our PIXes for OpenBSD and pf.

If you NAT a lot, PIX can't handle the load.  It also isn't flexible enough.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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