Re: Specification-based Anomaly Detection

[Stefano Zanero <zanero () elet polimi it>]

Kohlenberg, Toby wrote:

> > - and that anomaly detection (in particular techniques which are not 
> > rate-based) is a relative "newcomer" in the COMMERCIAL field of 
> > intrusion detection, where most of the products are built on a misuse 
> > detection approach.
>
> Really? What would you call CMDS? Which was a commercial system that
> used anomaly detection by building user profiles and was available from
> ODS in the mid-90s?

My omission here: I meant NETWORK intrusion detection, as we were 
talking about NIDS in those posts. Commercial anomaly detection systems 
exist.

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