Re: What am I Protecting Against?

["Roy S. Rapoport" <snort-users () ols inorganic org>]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:14:10AM -0600, james wrote:
> : And, more generally, is there a way to find out, essentially, what the
> : rule writer was thinking when they came up with the rule?
>
> The rule writer understands that snort is not about protection, 
> but providing info so a clueful user can then take action to protect.
> Clueful users know you cannot run all the rules & that it is expected
> and required that one tune the rule set to their networks. 

Interestingly, I'm getting a mixture of somewhat-conflicting answers to
my question -- all of which are, I think, right.

> I do not see how Snort, run by itself, provides "protection".

Never said it did.

-roy


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