Re: Snort is a "niche player"

["Keith W. McCammon" <keith-list () mccammon org>]

[Warning: Uncensored and not entirely though through response follows. 
I have not, nor do I plan to waste my time reading anything Gartner 
publishes.]

These are the same people that, every time an IIS vuln hits the wire, 
puts out a "report" that indicates that companies would be safer 
immediately switching to another platform, running another web server. 
Like someone who can't secure a Windows box can secure a Linux farm. 
And because the risk analysis required for an organization to switch 
platforms overnight is fast and/or easy.  And because making knee-jerk 
technical decisions like this is a good idea.  And so on...

Anyone foolish enough to read anything that Gartner releases and take it 
without a number of very large grains of salt should, by all means, stop 
using Snort and immediately purchase and deploy whatever product Gartner 
recommends by way of their little magic eight-ball/quadrant/revenue-box 
(which, for the bargain price of ~$250/hour, Gartner will kindly design 
and deploy for you--because they're nice people).

Yaakov Yehudi wrote:
> I see that Gartner Research are dismissing Snort as a "Niche Player" in
> their recent report "Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection Systems, 2H03".
> Has anybody else read this report?, and if so, what is your opinion?
>
> Regards, Ya'akov
>
>
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