Re: tippingpoint

[Sean Perry <sean.perry () intransa com>]

Kerry Cox wrote:

> Anyone know anything about TippingPoint.com? Anyone using it or have
> used it in the past?
> The Dell sales guy has been talking to management trying to sell them on
> this intrusion prevention solution from TippingPoint Technologies.
> Management, of course, is curious and wonders why we even use Snort when
> we could spend money on a solution rather than have it free. :-P
> Gotta spend that money, you know.
> Thanks.
> KJ

IPS vendors and the trade mags have been talking about how useless IDS 
are lately.  You might want to sniff around on google and the like.  At 
least one mag (lost the name) had an article a month or three back 
stating that IDS would be dead and gone in 2 years.




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