RE: Tuning false positives

Joel,

Your test was of version 2.5, while we're currently on version 4.1.
There have been significant changes and improvements in the past year+.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel M Snyder [mailto:Joel.Snyder_at_Opus1.COM]
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:03 AM
To: focus-ids_at_securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Tuning false positives

Gary Halleen (ghalleen) <ghalleen_at_cisco.com> wrote:

> Before I catch too many flames, let me clarify that I recommend a
good > SIM product, of which MARS is one.

Hmmm, speaking of flames... not sure that I would necessarily agree that
MARS is even a SIM product at all, depending on your definition of SIM,
but in any case rather than flame in public, I'll pitch out:

http://infosecuritymag.techtarget.com/ss/0,295796,sid6_iss506_art1043,00
.html

which is a test I did of five SIMs late last year.

jms

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