[178060] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Intrusion Detection recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafael Possamai)
Fri Feb 13 16:55:24 2015
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From: Rafael Possamai <rafael@gav.ufsc.br>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:45:30 -0600
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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What is the alternative then... Does he have the time to become a BSD guru
and master ipfw and pf? Probably not feasible with all other job duties,
unless he locks himself in his mom's basement for the next 5 years.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 02:45:46PM -0600, Rafael Possamai wrote:
> > I am a huge fan of FreeBSD, but for a medium/large business I'd
> definitely
> > use a fairly well tested security appliance like Cisco's ASA.
>
> Closed-source software is faith-based security.
>
> ---rsk
>
