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Re: Intrusion Detection recommendations


From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 04:28:10 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Rich Kulawiec wrote:

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 02:45:46PM -0600, Rafael Possamai wrote:
I am a huge fan of FreeBSD, but for a medium/large business I'd definitely
use a fairly well tested security appliance like Cisco's ASA.

Closed-source software is faith-based security.

The ASA, like so many network/security appliances anymore, runs Linux (or *BSD) under the hood, however I don't know how old or horribly mangled it is.

jms


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