Re: Wishlist for IPS Products

[Jason Haar <Jason.Haar () trimble co nz>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:18:27AM -0400, PS R wrote:
> I am thinking of:
> - Flow Control - limitations on flooding, unused connections, etc...
> - Robust, ACURATE signature base
> - Packet capture - no debate on how much before, as that has been covered
> - Pre-deployment network analysis tools to accelerate deployment
> - Anomaly detection
> - Alert export compatibility with 3rd party event management solutions

One thing I think is important is that these vendors realise that just
*MAYBE* their customers already have existing infrastructure for doing
things like alerting, and that they should support that instead of creating
yet another damn stand-alone application.

We need to see more integration in this industry - hell - IT in general.

By alerting, I mean support SNMP traps (gah!), eventlog (for Windows), and
better yet - syslog. There are still too many "security products" out there
that think logging to their own text file or proprietary database is the
best way of doing things. I'm not saying any of that needs to be thrown out,
but they should try to ADDITIONALLY support mechanisms their customers have
probably got covered.

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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