We didn't test other IDS vendors because it was an IPS test.
We DID test more IPS vendors but not all of them made it into the report.
Because of the amount of time we spend on testing each product, 9-10 vendors
is about the limit of the number we can test and still bring out the report
in a timely manner.
FYI, we start testing for Edition 3 immediately, and that currently
includes:
Checkpoint
Cisco
Intoto
Juniper
Lucid
Radware
Westline
And potentially 3 others yet to be announced
We then follow that with our Multi-Gigabit IPS test (carrier
class/enterprise) with devices ranging from 2Gbps to a claimed 10Gbps from:
McAfee
Radware
SecureSoft
TippingPoint
Top Layer
And potentially 2 others yet to be announced
Bob Walder
On 25/1/05 3:58 pm, "Clemens, Dan" <Dan.Clemens@healthsouth.com> wrote:
I guess what I don't get is why didn't you test other ids manufactures on the
market also?
Why did you only test the vendors mentioned below?
-Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Walder [mailto:bwalder@spamcop.net]
Sent: Mon 1/24/2005 2:59 AM
To: Focus-Ids Mailing List
Cc:
Subject: New IPS group test report
For those who are interested, we just published Edition 2 of our IPS group
test report.
For this edition we had methodologies for both content-based and rate-based
(attack mitigation) IPS - one product was tested against both. Five made it
into the final report:
Content-based:
Broadweb NetKeeper
Fortinet FortiGate
SecureSoft Apsolute IPS
Top Layer IPS 5500
Rate-based:
Top Layer IPS 5500
V-Secure V-100
The report can be viewed on-line (with no pesky registration forms!) at
www.nss.co.uk/ips
As with Edition 1, the entire report is up there barring only the benchmark
results tables.
Hope you find it useful
Bob Walder
The NSS Group
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