Snort thread run an active discussion on topic "ROI on IDS/IPS products". The one who initiated the discussion asked the question about how to measure the ROI (return of investment) on IDS/IPS products, by giving an example that a company removed their IPS deployment after 2-year of usage because the…

I attended ICSA IPS meeting in Las Vegas last Friday (8/8). The attendees were the mix of technical and marketing people from different security companies. It is not 'cool' to take pictures in a 'hacker's' meeting, so here are some random snapshots outside of the meeting of Las Vegas Casinos. The real hacker's meeting, Black…