Re: State of security technology for the enterprise

"Marcus J. Ranum" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.wizards
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> "Deep packet inspection" has been on the market as such for a number of 
> years as the challengers to "stateful packet inspection" 

...And nobody has ever done an adequate job of explaining what is
stateful about SPI or particularly "deep" about DPI.   As one of those
obnoxious guys who always did everything at Layer 7, it seems more
like an argument about who's the tallest kid in the shallow end of
the pool.

mjr.
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Marcus J. Ranum		CSO, Tenable Network Security, Inc.
			http://www.tenablesecurity.com
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