TAC IPS Media Series, Episode 1 - What is an IPS?

[Christopher Dreier]

Episode Information

Episode Name: Episode 1 - What is an IPS?

Contributors: Blayne Dreier, Stijn Vanveerdeghem

Posting Date: August 25th, 2010

Description: In this episode, Cisco TAC engineers discuss the basic definition and history of the IPS product.

Episode Show Notes

• IPS stands for Intrusion Prevention System
• IDS stands for Intrusion Detection System
• IPS systems recognize malicious traffic via predefined patterns called signatures
• NIPS stands for Network Intrusion Prevention System
• HIPS stands for Host Intrusion Prevention System
  
• "Computer Security Threat Monitoring and Surveillance," James Anderson:
  http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/ande80.pdf
• "An Intrusion-Detection Model," Dr. Dorothy Denning: http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~denning/infosec/ids-model.rtf
• Intrusion Detection at SRI International: http://www.csl.sri.com/programs/intrusion/
• Cisco Acquires WheelGroup: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/corp_021898.html

About the TAC IPS Media Series

The Cisco TAC IPS Media Series is created by Cisco TAC engineers. Each episode will concentrate on a particular feature of the IPS, with a  portion dedicated to configuration and a portion dedicated to troubleshooting and debugging.

Complete episode listing and show information

[Diego Armando Cambronero Arias]

Hello guys,

This is a very helpful information keep going. Stijn helped me very much with a case I opened in the TAC and Blayne helped me in the Show podcast. Very nice work. THANK YOU!!

[mikecrowe4ICS_2]

Good stuff.  Looking forward to seeing more, especially what advanced topics might be covered.  You guys should promote this a little more.  Even as a regular reader of the IPS forums, I just now noticed this had been added.

One other note - small problem with the volume balance, especially Stijn's dialogue relative to the added sound effects.  I had to turn up the volume to hear him, but got blasted by the "swoosh" that followed. Maybe just lower the volume on the effects?

[Christopher Dreier]

Hello Michael,

Thanks for the feedback! We do plan to promote more. We just wanted to get a few episodes out first. We've completed shooting on Episode 2 and we're editing it now. We are also very excited to move into the meatier topics.

Thanks for the tip on the audio. We're learning - hopefully. I'll watch this point closely while editing future episodes.

Thank you,
Blayne

[golly_wog]

Awesome Lads. I look forward to learning more about these bad boys.

Thank you.

:-)

[Jfsixty01]

Are these still available in podcast or MP3 format?