Re: How to choose an IDS/FW MSS provider

From: Peter Schawacker (peter_at_schawacker.com)
Date: 03/12/05

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    Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:41:46 -0800 (PST)
To: Kevin <kkadow@gmail.com>, focus-ids@securityfocus.com

    Hi Kevin,

    You make some good points, but I wanted to clarify
    something that you wrote. McAfee's IntruShield NIPS
    appliance does not run Linux. Also, it is
    ASIC/FPGA-based. Each IntruShield appliance does
    include a celeron processor, but that Intel chip is
    used only for management. All of the IDS/IPS work is
    done using FPGA's, ASIC's and network processors.

    BTW, I work for McAfee.

    Peter

    --- Kevin <kkadow@gmail.com> wrote:
    > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:28:57 +0000, buineach
    ...
    > And there are products like Intrushield, which are
    > known to
    > use Linux/LGPL code and also boast about the high
    > performance of "ASIC based appliance" IPS.
    >
    >
    > > I think you will admit that the technology used
    > by IDS vendors is
    > > almost the same as the appliance IPS they now
    > promote.
    ...

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