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Re: About IPS testing

Subject: Re: About IPS testing
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:12:00 -0600
Julius Detritus wrote:

Also everybody knows that IPS are subject to performance issues when they
are not tuned. So "old" and useless signatures are usually disabled in
production. Having them enabled for tests will make results unreliable as
they do not match production conditions.

I don't understand your logic of 'disabling old filters.'

It'd be a pretty sorry state of affairs if your site with your expensive IPS got 0wned by Nimda/Slammer/Witty again.

An IPS that can't keep up on both old and busted /and/ new hotness would be a pretty useless IPS. You'd be better off just patching your exposed machines.

-tod
 (ObDisclaimer: I work at an IPS vendor, TippingPoint)

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