RE: [Snort-users] Re: [Snort-devel] IDS vs IPS

From: Gordon Cunningham <gacunningham(at)bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 11:24:30 EDT

Ok, for me, IPS is a class of systems, not a single hardware device. It includes firewalls, routers, IDS and whatever convergence of those systems is seen. Whether we include security policy in the definition, yes if we talk about a general enterprise system, no if we refer to hardware devices.

Who coined the term and how do they define it?

• Gordon

"The software said it requires Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux..."

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From: snort-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:snort-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mark Teicher

Sent:	Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:23 AM
To:	twig les; snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:	RE: [Snort-users] Re: [Snort-devel] IDS vs IPS

I am still waiting for people on the list to detail what an IPS actually is and the underlying technology that makes it so attractive to large enterprise entities

/mark

At 09:20 PM 8/27/2003, twig les wrote:

>I agree with an early post on this thread that IPS is basically

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