Advice on IDS product

From: Dee Bee (db2853@whycertainly.net)
Date: 02/13/03 

From: "Dee Bee" <db2853@whycertainly.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:26:11 GMT

Hello!
My company is looking for an IDS, and though I've read quite a few postings
up here to learn some basics, I could still use some advice:

* We have a frac T1 line coming in, going through a Cisco 2600 series
router. Presently our "firewall" is a series of access-lists in the router.
* Connected to the outside are an NT web server, a Win2k proxy server, and a
Win2k Terminal Server.
* Looking at my Cisco access-lists, I am calculating we get about 1.5
million packets coming in per day, and about the same number going out. (Not
sure if that qualifies our load as light, heavy, etc.)
* I already spend 112.2% of my day programming, and administering a
database,web site, network, etc. and so can't spend a week coming up to
speed on a complicated product.
* Am attracted to the (possible) economy of putting software like BlackIce
on a Win2k box, but also love the reliability of a dedicated appliance (our
Cisco router rocks!). I'll throw out a figure of $3,000 as the absolute most
I can invest.
* Would **love** to replace the access-lists with a more dynamic, easily
managed product.

Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated...

Dee Bee

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