NSS (was Re: Intrusion Prevention)

From: Randy Taylor <gnu(at)charm.net>
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 09:39:08 EST

At 07:29 PM 12/25/2002 +0000, Rick Williams wrote:
>[snip]... I will be beginning evals of IntruVert soon, with NetScreen IDP

I guess I saw a lot more detail and quality in the OSEC criteria than you did. To each their own.

>Whilst the OSEC results are always interesting and should not be ignored,

Um, NSS got paid once to do their tests. I'm not ponying up additional monies for the privilege of reading their results. And for subjective issues, I'll
ask the people that actually use the products in question, not NSS. In addition, because I have adequate background in this field, I'll also eval the subjective stuff myself and resolve things against my own conclusions and the user feedback I get.

>I am hoping that both Netscreen and Sourcefire will be in the next edition

Enterasys or the Dragon crew can speak to why they don't submit their stuff to NSS if they have a mind. Or not. Or something. *shrug*

>My 0.02

And mine as well.

Best regards,

Randy

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-- Cypher - The Matrix -- Received on Mon Dec 30 11:49:01 2002