At the Frontline with Honeybaked Hamâ€™s IT Systems/Security
Manager Erik Goldoff  Goldoff discusses what keeps him up at
night, plus working through convergence issues  ST&D: What are
some of your recent security technology purchases, and why did
you choose them?  We have installed the TopLayer IPS 5500
intrusion prevention device. We didn't have intrusion prevention
or detection in place. The funding became available with the
CISP, the cardholder information security program, which is now
known as PCI. Part of the compliance plan stipulates an IDS. And
an intrusion detection program is little more than something
that tells you, "Hey, you just got bit." Well, it may also tell
you all during the day, "You could have got bit, you could have
got bit, you could have got bit." So there's an issue with false
positives as well.  There's a couple of options available in the
IDS world, some of which are open source, so very low cost, but
you'd use them on general desktop OS or server type hardware.
Depending on throu