RE: IPS comparison

["Leif Sawyer" <lsawyer () gci com>]

bw [bjshhsjb \@ yahoo.com]  wrote:
> I have been tasked with comparing IPS appliances. I am 
> seriously looking at top layer's product line and tipping 
> point. Does anyone have a spreadsheet or know of any tool 
> they would be willing to share for comparing products. Im new 
> to this so any help would be appreciated

I almost wonder if it's of more importance to review the IDS
collection/analysis engines?

With so much data available, who has time to look at it all,
without some method of distilling it all down to useful data?

Protego (now Cisco MARS), Checkpoint Eventia, ...

are there any others?  There must be.  But with this being such
a "new" model, I haven't seen a lot of information comparing
these types of products yet.