RE: IPS Comparison

["Kyle Quest" <Kyle.Quest () networkengines com>]

> I'm going with "Well I read..." for my info on this, but the article
> by Ed Skoudis and Mike Poor in the November 2005 issue of Information

Speaking of the article... It was somewhat surprising
that Ed & Mike ended up doing very basic IPS testing.
They didn't even test flooding DoS functionality,
which is, by far, the most important thing an IPS
is suppose to stop (the reason I say that is because
you can patch your vulnerable system and you technically
don't need an IPS to catch attacks exploiting it, but there's
no such thing as a patch for SYN floods or DNS query floods).

Even detection tests were somewhat basic. I wonder why...
I guess they spent too much time setting things up. I wouldn't
rely completely on their results if you want to have a good idea who's
detection capabilities are better.

Kyle

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