[178082] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Intrusion Detection recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Sat Feb 14 08:29:03 2015
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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 04:28:10 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20150213212711.GA16425@gsp.org>
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Rich Kulawiec 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.
The ASA, like so many network/security appliances anymore, runs Linux (or
*BSD) under the hood, however I don't know how old or horribly mangled it
is.
jms
