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IDS: RE: Tuning false positives - SIM is not the answer

RE: Tuning false positives - SIM is not the answer

From: Ron Gula <rgula_at_tenablesecurity.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:58:31 -0500

At 05:37 PM 1/13/2006, Mike Owen wrote:
>On 1/13/06, Matthew Caldwell <mcaldwel_at_micromuse.com> wrote:
> > You could always solicit to have the source for the Linux/GNU/GPL'ed
> > apps to be published from Cisco. Linksys had the same problem because
> > they could have modified the code. The same thing could be applied from
> > another perspective for other products out on the market.
> >
> > Matt
>
>That wouldn't work. The only GPL code on there is RedHat 7.2, the
>source of which is available. Everything else is Cisco/Protego IP,
>which they are under no obligation to release.

There is always the Nessus 2 code as well.

Ron

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