RE: IPS Performance Testing (pointer to article)

Similar to the article mentioned below, I wrote a paper entitled,
"Factors Affecting Network IPS Throughput". It too may be helpful. You
can find that as well as some other related papers/presentations here:

http://www.icsalabs.com/technology-program/network-ips/papers-multimedia

Take care,
Jack Walsh
Anti-Spam and Network IPS Program Manager
ICSA Labs
717.790.8126


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Subject: IPS Performance Testing (pointer to article)

I don't normally shill my own stuff, but this article came
out today and
it is entirely apropos to the discussion we have been having
about IPS
performance testing (although I wasn't thinking 10G when I
wrote it, I
admit).

http://searchmidmarketsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid
198_gci1349879_mem1,00.html

"IPS performance is something you can't afford to get wrong.
Unfortunately, performance is difficult to test, and the results are
almost as hard to describe. As IPS moves further up the
network stack,
performance becomes highly data-dependent. This is different
from what
we're used to witnessing in the world of switches and routers, where
performance is easy enough to describe. ..."

Apologies to anyone who is offended by the pointer.

jms

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