Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Reliability of signatures

[Michael Scheidell <michael.scheidell () secnap com>]

On 2/10/11 10:04 AM, Matt Olney wrote:
> And I would argue that "no iis" here isn't a valid FP.  The signature 
> performed correctly and notified you that a scan attempt was under 
> way.  It is up to the system admin to correctly 
> suppress/disable/modify rules that do not target his network.  In our 
> view, a FP only occurs when network traffic triggers an alert that is 
> specifically NOT traffic that the rule was intended to fire on.  The 
> rules are application/server agnostic (some wiggle room in this 
> comment both currently and in the future) they are solely based on the 
> traffic on the wire.
and, again, the point being, you need to allow idiots to mark it a fp in 
a way that will not affect reliability stats.
been doing this for 5 years with email, I really do know it matters.
lusers are idiots.  management won't allow bofh's anymore, so, you allow 
them to click a useless button.
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