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RE: Network Box Appliances - IDS
From: "Fergus Brooks" <fergusb () evolve-online com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:40:07 +0800
They are relatively popular in Hong Kong. I have heard positive things from clients who use them - however I can't give you anything detailed on the tech. One thing I can say is that they sell more a solution - they will make changes remotely etc and they spport the boxes directly. Which can be good or bad depending on your attitude to managed security services. Rgds... -----Original Message----- From: Brent Stackhouse [mailto:brent.stackhouse () fxfn com] Sent: Friday, 14 November 2003 5:45 AM To: focus-ids () securityfocus com Subject: Network Box Appliances - IDS Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has heard of Network Box (www.networkboxusa.com and www.network-box.com) and their all-in-one appliances, a la TippingPoint. I sat through a presentation on their stuff today and figured out that it's a "hardened" Linux box with "glue" to hold together a firewall (iptables seems to part of it), IDS (Snort, I think...), anti-virus (Kaspersky), content-filtering (SurfControl), VPN (?), and anti-spam (also ?). Um, okay. On the one hand I'm glad they're not trying to recreate all the wheels at one time but the glue may in fact be the problem. I've never heard of them before today (I'm mostly a Cisco IDS guy, some Snort, some RealSecure) and wondered if anyone has any clue as to whether they're good/bad/ugly. Right now, they seem to be unknown, which doesn't fly too well in security-land... Thanks in advance. Brent Stackhouse Network Security Specialist FundsXpress Financial Network Austin, Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Network with over 10,000 of the brightest minds in information security at the largest, most highly-anticipated industry event of the year. Don't miss RSA Conference 2004! Choose from over 200 class sessions and see demos from more than 250 industry vendors. If your job touches security, you need to be here. Learn more or register at http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/RSA_focus-ids_031023 and use priority code SF4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- -- This message has been scanned by AVMail --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Network with over 10,000 of the brightest minds in information security at the largest, most highly-anticipated industry event of the year. Don't miss RSA Conference 2004! Choose from over 200 class sessions and see demos from more than 250 industry vendors. If your job touches security, you need to be here. Learn more or register at http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/RSA_focus-ids_031023 and use priority code SF4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Network Box Appliances - IDS Brent Stackhouse (Nov 17)
- RE: Network Box Appliances - IDS Fergus Brooks (Nov 19)