Re: Announcement: Alert Verification for Snort

[Michael Sierchio <kudzu () tenebras com>]

Martin Roesch wrote:

> Yes.  Separating the wheat from the chaff is becoming increasingly 
> important in IDS as we all know, I'll be interested to see how the 
> different techniques and approaches people are using to address this 
> problem actually work in production.

Judgement and discrimination require human intervention.  When I
hear those who say things akin to "intrusion detection doesn't
work,"  I think of the story of the guy who returned a violin
to the music store with the complaint, "this violin doesn't
play Mozart."

I like your term "nontextual" -- and the implication that
there's no substitute for an assessment of the assets we are
placing at risk, what their vulnerabilities are, what the
(known) threats are, etc.  Managers want "plug and play"
because they have so little respect for our profession ;-)



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