| Product | CA eTRUST Intrusion Detection 3.0 | Juniper IDP | McAfee Intrushield I-series |
| Vendor | Computer Associates | Juniper | McAfee |
| Phone | 02 9937 0500 | 02 8913 9800 | 1800 644 646 |
| Web | www.ca.com | www.juniper.net | www.mcafee.com.au |
| RRP (as tested inc GST) | AU$3639 for 125 sessions | IDP100 AU$29,990 | I-1200 AU$19,633.93 |
| Warranty | Maintenance Licences include free support for 12 months | 1 year hardware/software, can be extended to 3 years | One year, renewable annual as part of support agreement |
| Real-time traffic analysis | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virus/worm/trojan detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| External attack detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Internal attack detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Attack blocking capability | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| External probe detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Internal probe detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Probe blocking capability | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Blocking definitions | Yes | Stateful signatures, protocol anomaly, backdoor detection, traffic anomaly, layer 2 protection, syn flood, enterprise security profiler | Updates, user-defined block lists and customisable rules |
| Real time alerting | E-mail, pager, run application, SNMP, console | Email, syslog, snmp, logfile, SMS-external | Console, e-mail, pagers, SMS via e-mail |
| Data packet logging | Workspace (proprietary), ODBC database | Syslog, internal database | Oracle, MySQL |
| Content searching | Yes | Yes | N/A |
| Content matching | Yes | Yes | N/A |
| Content filtering | Yes | Yes | N/A |
| Filtering methods | URL database | Admin definied | N/A |
| Reporting tools | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Operating system support | Windows 2000 (standalone) Windows 2000/2003/XP for Remote Engine | Management console Windows, Linux; Management server Linux, Solaris | Management console Windows 2000 |
| Product | McAfee Entercept 5.0 | Snort 2.1.3 | SonicWALL IPS service |
| Vendor | McAfee | Snort | ACA Pacific |
| Phone | 1800 644 646 | +410 423 1901 | 03 9674 8188 |
| Web | www.mcafee.com.au | www.snort.org | www.sonicwall.com |
| RRP (as tested inc GST) | Management server AU$8920, Windows Server agent AU$1730, desktop agent AU$37 | Free under the GNU General Public Licence | TZ170 US$595 to PRO5060 US$14,950 |
| Warranty | One year, renewable annual as part of support agreement | No warranty provided | 1 year included, extended warranty/available |
| Real-time traffic analysis | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virus/worm/trojan detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| External attack detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Internal attack detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Attack blocking capability | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| External probe detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Internal probe detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Probe blocking capability | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Blocking definitions | Updates, user-defined block lists and customisable rules | Updates, third-party integration, user customisable | Updates |
| Real time alerting | Console, e-mail, pagers, SNMP, process spawning | Logs, e-mail, console, third-party applications | Logs, e-mail, syslog, SGMS |
| Data packet logging | Microsoft SQL Server | N/A | N/A |
| Content searching | N/A | Yes | Yes |
| Content matching | N/A | Yes | Yes |
| Content filtering | N/A | Yes | Yes |
| Filtering methods | N/A | Admin defined | Blacklist, third party, admin defined |
| Reporting tools | Yes | N/A (sold separately) | N/A (sold separately) |
| Operating system support | Management system Windows 2000; console Windows NT, 2000, XP; agents Windows, Solaris, HP/UX | Linux, Windows | Any IP environment |
