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by dfingold

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Hi,
I'm looking for intrusion prevention software. So far I found Entercept and it?s very impressive. I would like some feedback on it if you know it, and if you know other Intrusion prevention software that you can recommend I?d be happy to know about it. Anther question that comes in mind is, do I need IDS on top of it?

Thanks a lot.
Dfingold

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The question is what are you trying to protect? If you are trying to protect a Web application from buffer overflows, SQL injection, and URL parameter tampering, etc. Entercept is a good choice. Another product you may want to investigate is AppShield by Sanctum. Both these systems are advanced application proxies. You would not need an application proxy if web programmers checked for these types of attacts in the code.Typically and IDS will not catch these types of attacks because these are specific to your custom web application, an IDS is designed to identify know vulnerabilities base on signatures. Yes you should still deploy an IDS to identify non-application specific attacks.

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