National IPS Testing Week
Looks like this is the week to talk about IPS testing. NSS Labs had some very interesting news and a blog post around their upcoming testing of 10 Gbps IPS devices. BreakingPoint is involved with the NSS Labs test, who released their IPS test methodology in conjunction with the announcement. It is important and interesting to watch other testing methods, particularly from a respected group like NSS Labs. This got me thinking about the one video in our series that I mentioned in my earlier post; "Testing Victims". This video brings home a critical issue around testing content-aware devices when Rik and Dennis discuss how the equipment most likely won't come within 50% of their public performance claims. And the guys note that it's not their fault. It's the legacy testing equipment they used that couldn't truly test the devices with stateful application traffic at the right speeds.
Because I hate to see "National IPS Testing Week" (my unofficial claim...for now) come to an end I wanted to highlight some of the individual videos, starting with "Testing Victims". You can check out all eight videos on the IPS Test page.
