Big Blue has jumped into the pool with their normal timing. Well after the market is littered with broken promises and vapour ware they have introduced. The Identity Manager Express security software is an add-on for the Tivoli kludge. This software appears to be little more than a behavioural analysis tool.
“This is different than a regular honeypot that just traps the virus,” said Steven Tomasco, an IBM spokesman. “The tool does not just trap it. It responds to it, so the worm will have to reveal its identity and there will be less false positives.”
In marketing speak this reads “yeah, we’re just like Cisco’s piss poor offering that really works like shit just as poorly”. I have spoken to technical leads for a couple security vendors that have told me quite candidly that IPS technology is a couple years away from any sort of maturity.