[Dailydave] lots of monkeys staring at a screen....security?

[Gadi Evron]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Thomas Ptacek wrote:
> The #1 thing IDS/IPS does right is policy enforcement?

Yes.

The best thing and mostly what people use I[DP]S systems today, for, is
detecting who is using P2P, IM, and what not.

Notice "use" rather than "plan".

> Did you have your firewalls doing vulnerability assessment and your
> antivirus doing word processor mail merges at the same time?

Did I ever run an IDS for a large organization? Yes, why thanks for
asking.

> 
> > So, let us list what I[DP]S does right:
> > 1. Policy enforcement.
> > 2. Board-room budget meeting graphs and statistics generation.
> > 3. ...?
>