[177798] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Checkpoint IPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Thu Feb 5 14:55:35 2015
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From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 02:55:11 +0700
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On 6 Feb 2015, at 2:29, Terry Baranski wrote:
> And if there's one person qualified to comment on what "real security"
> is, it's a person who has "never heard a plausible anecdote of [IPS]
> devices actually 'preventing' anything." :-)
That's right - especially if such a person spent a not-inconsiderable
amount of time working for the world's largest manufacturer of such
devices, and heard no such plausible anecdote during his time there,
even though he asked repeatedly for same.
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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
