Re: [Full-disclosure] Suggestion for IDS

Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu
Date: 09/28/05

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    To: "J. Oquendo" <sil@infiltrated.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:37:38 -0400

    On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:01:34 EDT, "J. Oquendo" said:

    > While I do agree with the statement made "Quite frankly, anybody who
    > already has a PIX installed and wants to install an IPS needs to quantify
    > *exactly* what protection the PIX is failing to provide before they go
    > shopping for anything" to a degree, I also disagree with that statement
    > since it eludes to the thinking that solely a PIX will save your ass. It
    > won't, nor will any other firewall, nor will any other product combined
    > with any OTHER product and so on.

    Obviously, the original poster isn't thinking that a PIX will save their ass,
    because they're in the market for something in addition :)

    They should be figuring out *why* they need more protection (quite frankly, for
    many places, a *properly configured and maintained* PIX is quite sufficient),
    and exactly what areas they want extra protection. Amazingly enough, people
    who will look at their current car and say "I need a new one, and it needs to
    have X, Y, and Z, and maybe W if it adds less than $500 to the bottom-line price"
    seem to be unable to do similar rational analysis when they go shopping for
    security gear.

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