As you noted, some firewalls have this functionality built into the
system. I'm not aware of any standalone products of this nature.
At 02:48 PM 96/11/1 -0400, Roy Berger wrote:
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> I'm a newbie who has subscribed to this list for about 5 months. This is
> my first post so please be gentle. I've been assigned the task of
> researching firewall technologies for my companies products. We have a
> NT based WWW product which needs to access a database server (via ODBC)
> which will reside behind a firewall. We're basically trying to just be
> flexible about security in terms of fitting in with a given customer's
> security setup. We have a customer who has a firewall (not sure which
> one) running on a Unix box. Their security guy knows the Unix world and
> has indicated to us that there is some software running on their Unix box
> which can detect if the system is being compromised and do something like
> shutdown that connection, log the event, etc. They wanted to know if we
> knew of any similar code which could run on the NT box to perform the
> same function. This information came to me third hand, so obviously I'm
> missing details. For all I know, the software they are talking about is
> actually part of the firewall they are running on the Unix box. After
> sitting on this list for 5 months and doing additional research on
> firewall technology out there, I know that this type of functionality is
> incorportated into some of the firewall products out there. I have a
> couple of questions:
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> If this "Compromise Detection" software is, in fact, a separate piece
> of code which is not part of the firewall software, is there a
> "generic" name for such an animal in the Unix world ?
> If there is a generic name for this type of software, does anyone know
> if such an animal exists for the NT world ?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Roy Berger
> Mission Critical Technologies
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