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Re: Checkpoint IPS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Thu Feb 5 14:59:49 2015

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From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
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Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 02:59:26 +0700
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On 6 Feb 2015, at 2:26, Terry Baranski wrote:

> Zero, on my networks.

Which highlights the importance of broadness of experience, of knowledge 
and understanding of the experiences of others, and understanding of the 
implications of scale.

> If you can't deploy IPS's in such a way that they don't make your 
> network
> less secure via DDoS susceptibility, or reduce availability due to
> non-existent or subpar redundancy/survivability engineering, then you
> shouldn't deploy IPS's.

By their very nature, it's impossible to do so.

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