RE: Snort is a "niche player"

["Bob Walder" <bwalder () spamcop net>]

Darren,

That's exactly why you must ensure that they also have access to reports
like ours and the reviews from the Network World guys

I am not trying to claim that we are the "be all and end all" of IDS/IPS
testing here, but I think that at least our reports provide a bit more
of a balanced view of what these products are actually CAPABLE of,
rather than some juicy Gartner sound bites.

Regards,

Bob Walder

www.nss.co.uk/ips
www.nss.co.uk/gigabitids




> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net 
> > [mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf 
> > Of Darren Webb
> > Sent: 30 June 2004 07:22
> > To: 'snort-users'
> > Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Snort is a "niche player"
> >
> >
> > Here is a link to the article. 
> > http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/networkassociates/1
> > 20510.html
> >
> > I would like to pose this question to the list (just a bit 
> > off topic).   In
> > your company do you, as the IDS admin/user, have complete 
> > control over what IDS systems you test and ultimately choose 
> > to bring in house?  I bring this up because my group (we are 
> > responsible for IDS) may lose the product ownership of the 
> > IDS systems and be forced to deal with an in-house 
> > engineering group for upgrades and new equipment/products.  
> > This group could potentially leverage reports such as this 
> > to bring in IDS vendors (see the Leader section in the 
> > "Magic Quadrant")that fit the Gartner definition of a good 
> > IDS (regardless of how they perform in the real world).
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Darren
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net
> > [mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf 
> > Of Yaakov Yehudi
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:49 PM
> > To: 'Guillaume Arcas'
> > Cc: 'snort-users'
> > Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Snort is a "niche player"
> >
> >
> >  Yes, those would be the same ones!  It's not the first time 
> > that I have felt I needed to take one of their reports with 
> > a "pinch of salt" (sorry, make that a cup!).
> >
> > Regards, Ya'akov
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Guillaume Arcas [mailto:guillaume.arcas () free fr] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 20:05
> > To: Yaakov Yehudi
> > Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort is a "niche player"
> >
> > Yaakov Yehudi a dit :
> > > 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?
> >
> > Gartner... Gartner...
> > These same guys who said IDS were dead last year ? :-)
> >
> > Guillaume Arcas
> >
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