As with fishing lures, they're designed to attract the attention of the
fisherman with the money in his pocket, not the fish. You can catch fish
with any bit of silvery metal with a hook on it, but no self-respecting
fisherman would buy one of these ("I'm not paying for that, I could make it
myself"). And you can make it yourself, given a bit of time and some freely
available materials.
You can make IDS's yourself too, using a bit of downloaded software and some
scripts. But you need the bit of time and you need to know what you're
doing. I think that most firewall's and IDS's are bought and installed just
so that the company can answer "Yes" when asked does it have one. And when
the decision to buy is made on these grounds, the people doing the deciding
are probably going to be impressed by pretty graphs because that's what they
understand.
Darryl.
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 3:13 AM
> To: Mikael Olsson
> Cc: turnere; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: IDS systems & technology
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> One of the things that strikes me about current NIDS implementations is
> that many of them seem to have turned into platforms for deploying
> bells and whistles comparatively early in their design lives.
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