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IDS: Re: Useful NADS

Re: Useful NADS

From: Stefano Zanero <zanero_at_elet.polimi.it>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 16:05:03 +0200

Andrew Plato wrote:
> Honestly, I have never found "network anomaly detection (NADS)" to be a
> tremendously valuable technology for most organizations.

Perhaps this is because no anomaly detectors exist in the commercial
world with just a few exceptions (Lancope and Arbor being the two that
come to mind) ?

> in the hundreds
> of networks I have seen, very few of them are very clean. Most of them
> are filthy with a constant onslaught of "anomalies.'

A good anomaly detector should filter out those "anomalies", which by
the sheer fact of being always there are extremely normal ;)

> One thing I have learned in my travels installing IPS/IDS for 6+ years
> now is that 95% of the admins out there pay very little attention to the
> deluge of data that comes from IPS/IDS technologies.

Then may I suggest that probably those technologies were either
misconfigured or installed at the wrong sites ?

Stefano

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