PG & Kerio HIPS

Discussion in 'ProcessGuard' started by Bob D, Mar 17, 2006.

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  1. Bob D

    Bob D Registered Member

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    Kerio's (v 4.2.3) HIPS, NIPS, and App Blocking appear quite effectual, but are they redundant in lieu of my PG paid? Am I adding any protection, or would I be just as well off disabling Kerio's Intrusion Detection?
    Any thoughts?
     
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    kampsk Registered Member

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    A bit improper to ask a competetor whether their app. is better than the competetors? How are they working together? you might just have the best of both. :)
     
  3. Bob D

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    I'm not asking whether Kerio is better.
    (Appdefend is a competitor, Kerio is a firewall - not a competitor).
    I bought a PG business license some time back.
    Subsequently installed Kerio w/ it's own HIPs.
    I was merely wondering whether additional HIPs in Kerio is totally redundant, or does it add any additional protection.
    ie.: am I better off disabling it's HIPs, thus reducing some of the program's bloat.
     
  4. Gavin - DiamondCS

    Gavin - DiamondCS Former DCS Moderator

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    It depends if you want fully granular and somewhat bloated application handling. Most of the time you will simply allow everything anyway, including execution by one program of another specific program - there are only rare cases where you could use it really effectively. Really paranoid users can either spend time configuring a complex setup in the HIPS, but can also take advantage of "Allow once" in PG. For a paranoid user, the occaisonal popup is no big deal.
     
  5. Bob D

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    Understood.
    Thanx.
     
  6. gottadoit

    gottadoit Security Expert

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    BoB D,
    One of the things I liked about kerio and its process execution handling was that it starts prior to logging in. This is quite different to ProcessGuard which starts after logging in

    The reason I say liked is because I stopped using Kerio a little while ago mostly because it was a little bloated for my liking, but that was mostly a firewall issue for me. A whole firewall to offer just pre-login application execution control seemed a little excessive....

    Maybe ProcessGuard will grow this feature in one of the future updates that have been proposed by DCS
     
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