Intrusion Detection recommendations

Mel Beckman mel at beckman.org
Fri Feb 13 20:02:12 UTC 2015


JO,

IDS to meet PCI or HIPAA requirements is "regulatory grade". It meets specific notification and logging requirements. SNORT-based systems fall into this category. 

 -mel beckman

> On Feb 13, 2015, at 10:00 AM, "J. Oquendo" <joquendo at e-fensive.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Mel Beckman wrote:
>> 
>> Unless you need regulatory-grade IDS, your best bet is a Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliance, essentially any modern enterprise grade firewall such as a Cisco ASA, Fortigate, SonicWall, etc. These all have built-in IDS/IPS options for a fee.
>> 
>> -mel
> 
> With all due respect, is regulatory-grade IDS the same as
> say "military-grade" encryption? 
> 
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