Re: recommendations regarding IPS

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

Edward W. Ray wrote:
> Tipping Point IPS is the gold standard these days.  Signature-based, which
> annual fee to get the signatures.  Signatures are usually weekly at a
> minimum.  I use the Unity 50, but they do have Gbps IPS.  All of their IPSes
> are "bump-in-the-wire" which means that you do not have to assign an address
> (operates at layer2 instead of layer 3). 

Not to say anything about Edward, but this thread is going to be mostly 
full of commercial injections.

Except for one network I have been in charge with I have never found the 
need for any I[DP]S product and find them an almost complete waste of 
time and money.

        Gadi.