--- as dsf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How is ISS dealing with Intrusion Prevention System?
> It seems everyone is just talking about good things
> about Netscreen IPS feature.
> How do we , security admins (most here probably
> working with ISS Realsecure) face the fact that 75% of
> future IDS implementation will undoubtely lead to an
> IPS system?
> Any comments?

ISS has been shipping "RealSecure Guard" for almost two years. Network ICE (who
ISS acquired in 2001) was the first company to ship an IPS, and the technology
was designed from the ground up to do IPS. Likewise, customers have used the
TCPkill and firewall reconfiguration features for years in RealSecure to
protect themselves from intrusions.

The thing is, IPS works much better on paper than it does in the real world.
There are still a lot of wrinkles to work out. This is why you don't see ISS
heavily marketing "IPS". IPS systems completely failed to protect people from
the SQL Slammer worm (including our own IPS). The most effective defense was
your traditional "firewall".

ISS is coming out with some really cool technology at the end of the year that
will change this. It's still not going to be a magic pill that stops all
intrusions, but it will be something that works in practice, technology that if
we had it today, would have stopped the Slammer worm (and a whole bunch of
other stuff).





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