RE: Signature Counts between IDS's

From: Greg Shipley (gshipley@neohapsis.com)
Date: 09/13/02 

Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:58:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: Greg Shipley <gshipley@neohapsis.com>
To: "Palmer, Paul (ISSAtlanta)" <PPalmer@iss.net>

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Palmer, Paul (ISSAtlanta) wrote:

> My apologies. I was incorrect to state that the product was not current
> when the article was written. However, the fact that it was not current
> by the time the article was published does sort of further emphasize the
> point.

Well, unfortunately the articles will NEVER be completely current based on
simple publishing dynamics. I don't really see a way around this.
However, I think the "take-away" here is that these articles serve as good
benchmarks for what the landscape looks like at a given point in time.

So at the time it was a good apples to apples comparison, however, the
stated information is now very much outdated. Heck, some of those
products don't even exist anymore, and many of the products have gone
through pretty massive changes. (ISS RealSecure v7 being one of them,
particularly as the engine has been totally re-done)

In short, anything in *this* space probably has a "best eaten by" date of
about, well, one year - max. :)

I'll shutup now,

-Greg

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