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Re: [Snort-users] Comparison question

Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Comparison question
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:22:56 -0500
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 20:24, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
I am wondering if anyone can give me any idea as to how well, or not, a 
Snort installation (of whatever is latest) would compare to using the 
IDS/IPS features of my SonicWall firewall (a Pro 4060, running their 
latest firmware). I have the firewall, with those features licensed. I 
could set up Snort. I'm trying to decide the merits of either decision.

    -ste

Hi-

First, I assume that you know that you will be told Snort is better on a
snort-users mailing list.<g>  But in all seriousness I would run both. 
If you have the resources to manage two different IDS solutions, it can
only be a good thing.  Just like most of us run multiple anti-virus
solutions on our mail servers, two different IDS's will better alert us
to nefarious activity.

Hope that helps,
Kevin
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