April 06, 2006
From now on, I'm calling it "CHiPs"
Ahem... So, Panda put out a press release last week that (unfortunately for me) intersted me enough to entice me to download and read a marketing whitepaper about TruPrevent. Now, I have nothing against Panda but lest anybody accuse me of endorsing the paper (trust me I don't), let me assure you that the only reason that I'm bringing it up is that it drew my attention to a new acronymn that was used extensively within the paper. The acronymn was "PIPS" or "Personal Intrusion Prevention System". Umm.... Yeah.
So for a while now we've had NIPS (Network Intrusion Prevention System) and HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System); now apparently, somebody thinks that we need a completely new acronymn. Now, rather than staying with the anatomy motif and choosing something like LIPS (that would have been my pick), they've elected to use "PIPS". I'm not entirely clear on what makes it "personal" - allthough both Panda and Gartner seem to imply that the fact that it's integrated makes it personal... Maybe that's it, although it seems to me that saying "PIPS" is more confusing than saying "suite".
Anyway, given the tendency for people to slap an -IPS suffix on random letters, I wanted to use this humble forum to go on record as reserving the "CHiPs" acronymn for future use. Yep, that's right - "Consolidated Holistic Intrusion Prevention System". CHiPs is the natural evolution of the market, and provides a robust framework for prevention of nefarious activity. You heard it here first. Here are the features that differentiatie a true CHiPs:
- The use of two agents working in tandem
- Uses lightweight, maneuverable "mobile" agents
- Ability to locate and investiate mobile threats
- Designed "to protect and to serve" both consumer and enterprise PC's
- Half the footprint of traditional mobile agents
This is coming, and man is it going to be awesome when it gets here.
Posted by Ed at April 6, 2006 03:56 PM