RE: Cisco CTR

["Rob Shein" <shoten () starpower net>]

I think this largely relates to the earlier discussion about how there is a
difference between a "false positive" and an actual attack that fails to
succeed.  Ask yourself this: are you going to want to know about all attacks
or just those that have a chance of success?  If someone throws IIS attacks
at your apache web server, do you want to know about it...or do you want to
wait until they start using apache-compatible exploits?

There's a good summary of what CTR does here:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps5054/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liran Chen [mailto:liranil () optonline net] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:41 PM
> To: focus-ids () securityfocus com
> Subject: Cisco CTR
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> Hi all 
>
> I am looking into adding some IDS blades from Cisco in to my 
> catalyst envronment. Cisco rep suggested to complement that 
> solution with CTR to reduce the FP ( False Possitives)
>
> This statement rises several questions:
> 1. What is FP ratio when you compare Cisco IDS to other IDS 
> vendors? 2. CTR is a kind of Nessus or NMAP that check the 
> offended host? Does any one as good/bad experience with this 
> CTR solution?
>
> Thanks
>
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