Reply From: Dale Holmes <sysguru@yahoo.com>
It sounds to me like this Business Wire reporter wasn't at
the conference! His report on the proceedings is CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ISS presentation sucked! Yes, they detected stuff, but the
sopftware was slow at best to report the intrusions (very very slow!)
and did NOT aound any aloarms or make any notifications (though it was
mentioned thet this was an available feature).
Chris Rouland is clearly not a people person. His speech was dull and
dry, when you could hear him. The presentation was hampered by the
lack of adequate facilities provided by the hotel - there was only one
microphone, a lapel clip-on type, to be shared by all presenters - and
the 2 ISS people there were clearly not in sync with each other.
Network Flight Recorder *CLEARLY* dominated the presentation! Delores
Quade gave an excellent presentation despite being sent to the
conference at short notice. Her speech was clear and substantive, not
full of marketing fluff like the ISS presentation. The NFR software
quickly and accurately detected all the attacks that were launched and
their filters provided access to much more detailed information than
the RealSecure product did. The NFR people never once mentioned
BackOrifice, though their software can detect it, which was a relief
to me, since the ISS people mentioned it over 5 times in their
presentation, as if it was the single most dangerous threat known
today...
The room was filled with extremely NON-technical people, and if Mr.
Spencer was there I would venture to say that he was one of them. The
NFR representatives were both extemely knowledgeable engineers, and I
think the that may have confused people somewhat. Most people have a
difficult time holding a technical discussion with serious Unix types
unles they are one themselves.
> ISS Dominates Live Intusion Detection Showcase
> ATLANTA (Sept. 10) BUSINESS WIRE -Sept. 10, 1998
>
> New version of RealSecure successfully detects and stops a wide
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Received on Mon Sep 14 11:11:30 1998