[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sure the sourcefire folks are thrilled at haveing a another signature farm out there. Having a false positive
in an IDS sig just means more alerts. Having a bad plugin
for Nessus means angry system administrators and tarnishing
the name of Nessus.
Interesting response. So are you saying you don't like it - or it would break the license? ;-) We are talking theoretically here - there's been nothing but hot air so far on the issue of others writing "competing" plugins - but it could (legally) happen?
As far as snort goes, I haven't heard any complaints from Sourcefire about having the competition - to be honest - they meet the needs of two different market segments. It's disingenuous to say that a separate plugins stream would "tarnishing the name of Nessus" - it hasn't happened to Snort - and a site would have to actually do something to pull such a structure in. I can't see how they could say it was Nessus's fault.
In both cases of Snort and Nessus, I like them as they have quality control of their "official" plugins - but give me the ability to create my own - or use others that someone else has written. Such a feature is one of their greatest assets.
-- Cheers
Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
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