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Promising tight integration, ipAngel yields some frustration

By David Newman, Joel Snyder, Network World
September 11, 2006 12:03 AM ET

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Company: Ambiron TrustWave

Product: ipAngel-2500

www.atwcorp.com

The ipAngel has a tight integration between a vulnerability scanner and its IPS engine. The idea of a self-tuning IPS, knowledgeable about network topology, and giving complete coverage even if the network manager doesn’t know what’s going on, sounds innovative.

However, we were frustrated by the hot-off-the-presses version of the ipAngel, because the ideas that showed up in the GUI looked like a combined approach that would help reduce IPS false positives and provide tuning capabilities to get full coverage across all applications and services.

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The ipAngel should have been a top performer, considering the hulking hardware Ambiron TrustWave supplied for this test – an eight-way dual-core Opteron machine, which is effectively a 16-CPU computer. While we’ve never seen Linux boot up so fast, the performance results were underwhelming. The vendor says it supplied beta drivers that have been optimized since test time.

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