That is a loaded question... I think a year or so ago, the shift in the
industry to consolidate products into integrated suites led the way.
Although the merger frenzy appears to have slowed lately, I think that the
basic premise is still valid. You will see much more integration of
products into a guard device that includes firewall, virus scanning, content
management and IDS all into one neat package. And I think that this product
will continue to gravitate to a hardware solution... a black box running
some flavor of LINUX probably.
GUI's designed to make the products even more easier to set up and maintain
will be an area of hot growth. They will work them until they get it to the
point where the kid making the office coffee can run one.
With the advent of this new age of integrated products, you will see
increased R&D work being done to make remote management safer and easier.
With built in encryption and out of band maintenance ports. Consolidation
and centralized management is the key.
With this, a whole new outsourcing industry will spring up. With the leaner
meaner corporate infrastructure, every person on the payroll needs to be
looking at expansion of the business, not fooling around with network
issues.
Will IDS stand on it's own.... I don't think so. The only way a product
will survive is if it is integrated into the firewall vendor's product
line... under license of course. We will probably see a year or two of a
IDS black box, but in the end, integrated solutions will reign supreme.
They will have had their 2 minutes in the sunlight.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Javier Romero [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 10:03 AM
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> Subject: Intrusion Detection System: Future
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> Hi, folks
>
> Does everybody know What is the future of :
> -RealSecure
> -Cisco�s IDS (NetRanger)
> -NFR
> -etc/etc
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> TIA.
>
> Javier
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