Re: GIDS, Intrusion Prevention: A Firewall by Any Other Name

[Gary Flynn <flynngn () jmu edu>]

Crispin Cowan wrote:

> Is anyone besides me sick to death of hearing about "intrusion 
> prevention" and "gateway intrusion detection" technologies? These are 
> devices that sit in-line between the Internet and your LAN, apply 
> intrusion detection pattern matching rules to the content they see 
> streaming in to your site, and block the stuff they deem to be "bad." 
> The canonical example being the Inline SNORT (nee Hogwash) open source 
> project.

Yea. But I also tired of everything being touted as "network enabled" in 
the eighties,
"web enabled" and "object oriented" in the nineties, "secure" anything 
lately, and
I'll likely tire of "web services" in the years to come. Its getting 
harder and harder
to get real information to find out what a product actually does 
regardless of what
it is called.

As someone else already said, an ethernet bridge is an ethernet bridge until
someone calls it a switch.

Corollary: A router is a router until someone calls it a layer three switch.

Consumer marketing.

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