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

[Jason <security () brvenik com>]

> 3.  The MARS OS is a Linux distro but users can't get to the actual
> OS.  This wouldn't normally be a problem but there was a bad MARS
> build that was published recently, yanked within a day or so, and
> then required a TAC engineer to remotely login to the MARS box to fix
> it.  This is contrary to every other Cisco device, including
> Linux-based 42xx IDS/IPS, that I've worked with.
Can I read into that statement that there is a some form of capability
that does allow access to the OS but only to Cisco TAC? Did you need to
enable an account and password for that access or simply access to the
system?

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