On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:31:49 -0500, Terry Baranski said: > People tend to hear what they want to hear. Surely your claim can't be that > an IPS has never, in the history of Earth, prevented an attack or exploit. > So it's unclear to me what you're actually trying to say here.
Count up the number of *actual* attacks they have stopped that wouldn't have been stopped otherwise, and contrast it to the number of times they've been used as the *basis* for an attack (DDoS via state exhaustion, for starters) or their failure has caused operational issues. Remember that one of the three security pillars is "Availability". Still think they're a good idea?
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