full-disclosure - Re: Why the IPS product designers concentrate on server side protection? why they are missing client protection

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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:27:48 -0300
From: Nelson Brito <nbrito@...ure.org>
To: rajendra prasad <rajendra.palnaty@...il.com>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Why the IPS product designers concentrate on
	server side protection? why they are missing client protection

Okay, but why did you mention AV as a client-side protection?

It leads to a discussion about client-side protection, anyways.

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On Jun 1, 2010, at 9:58 AM, rajendra prasad  
<rajendra.palnaty@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I have started this discussion with respect to Network IPS.
>
> Thanks
> Rajendra
>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, rajendra prasad <rajendra.palnaty@...il.com 
> > wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I am putting my thoughts on this, please share your thoughts,  
> comments.
>
> Request length is less than the response length.So, processing small  
> amount of data is better than of processing bulk data. Response may  
> have encrypted data. Buffering all the client-server transactions  
> and validating signatures on them is difficult. Even though  
> buffered, client data may not be in the plain text. Embedding all  
> the client encryption/decryption process on the fly is not possible,  
> even though ips gathered key values of clients.Most of the client  
> protection is done by anti-virus. So, concentrating client attacks  
> at IPS level is not so needed.
>
>
> Thanks
> Rajendra
>
>
>
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