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Re: Checkpoint IPS


From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 02:55:11 +0700


On 6 Feb 2015, at 2:29, Terry Baranski wrote:

And if there's one person qualified to comment on what "real security" is, it's a person who has "never heard a plausible anecdote of [IPS] devices actually 'preventing' anything." :-)

That's right - especially if such a person spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time working for the world's largest manufacturer of such devices, and heard no such plausible anecdote during his time there, even though he asked repeatedly for same.

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net>


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