IDS is here to stay

There is a lot of hype about how IDS is being replaced by IPS but here is an article that believes IDS products will still be in demand 5 years from now while IPS will be mostly part of firewall products
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/original
Content/0,289142,sid14_gci1268979,00.html?track=sy160&asrc=RSS_RSS-10_160

[Editor's Note (Valle): Most customers are still wary of putting their ASAs or IDS products in IPS mode. As more network attacks circumvent signature-based defenses, the real value of IDS comes from their ability to do deep packet inspection and report to SIM/SEM devices like MARS which in turn can activate mitigating instructions within the network.]

Visa eases PCI compliance penalties..a little

Earlier this month Visa USA warned banks that process card transactions for non-PCI compliant Level 1 and 2 merchants that they will face higher commission fees and monthly fines of at least $25,000 starting October 1st. These banks then passed the news on to their merchants. Non-compliant Level 1 merchants will be fined starting in October and Level 2 merchants in January 2008.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=131608&f_src=darkreading_informationweek

[Editor's note (Valle): Many large companies that transact over 6 million credit card transaction a year (Level 1) or 1-6 million transaction (Level 2) are still not PCI compliant.  In our experience many companies ultimately decide to purchase internal firewalls and IDS products for their PCI project.]