Best Practices for IPS Tuning - NSS Labs and Sourcefire

Vikram Phatak, CTO, NSS Labs, and Matt Watchinski, Sr. Director, Sourcefire VRT
Archived webcast jointly presented by Vikram Phatak and Matt Watchinski. Vikram discussed the benefits of vulnerability-based protection over an exploit-based approach and covered highlights of NSS Labs' December 2009 Network IPS Group Test. Matt provided a brief overview of Sourcefire and best practices for IPS tuning, including an overview of Sourcefire's automated IPS tuning capability.