RE: What are the differences between and IPS and IDS?

["Michael Steele" <michaels () winsnort com>]

Kavita,

 

In Short.

 

IPS is a Firewall - Actually blocks traffic

IDS is Snort - Only alerts on traffic

 

This is one on the BIG misconceptions of Snort. People expect it to actually
protect their system and that is not what it was designed to do.

Cheers...

-Michael Steele
--
 System Engineer / Security Support Technician    
 mailto:michaels () winsnort com   
 Website: http://www.winsnort.com
 Snort: Open Source Network IDS - http://www.snort.org

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Kavita - Apogent
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 12:41 PM
To: 'snort-users () lists sourceforge net'
Subject: [Snort-users] What are the differences between and IPS and IDS?

 

Hello all:

 

I would like to understand the differences between IDS and IPS.  We are
planning on installing snort and snortcenter and ACID, however, I have very
limited knowledge of what and IPS is, so I would like to understand it in
depth, more importantly, understand the diff bet IPS and IDS so that I am
sure that we are making 

the right decision to go with an IDS as opposed to an IPS.

 

Please provide me with the differences and advantages and disadvantages of
each approach?

 

Thanks a lot,

 

Kavita Chhabria

Systems Developer

Apogent Technologies

(269) 544-7515

 <mailto:kchhabria () apogent com> kchhabria () apogent com