Re: Recent Gartner IDS/IPS report

[Andreas Hess <andi_hess () web de>]

Hi,

I have just a short question. I can see the benefit of an IPS, namely 
that it is possible to prevent certain attacks.
But still, an IDP is prone to false positives, in the same was as an IDS 
- or did I miss something?
The evaluation process whether or not an attack is taking place does not 
differ from what an IDS does. There are no new techniques!
Certainly, it is possible to combine different analysis technologies and 
perhaps this also pais out but this is not said!

To my opinion it makes sense to block attacks which can be reliably 
identified, but what about the others?
The limiting factor is still the rate of false alarms!

Regards

Andreas



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