Focus on IDS
Re: CVE selection for IDS/IPS signature rules May 31 2008 02:41PM
abhicc285 gmail com (1 replies)
Hi Ravi,

One of the criteria can be market share of softwares. If there is a vulnerability in some software which does not have a decent market share, none of your customres are using it, why do you want to waste time, money and resources in developing signature.

Regards

Abhishek

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>Hi,

>There are over 30000 CVE vulnerability reports. >Many IDS/IPS devices

>have around 4000-5000 signature rules. My guess >is that these

>signatures may cover (detect)around 4000-7000 >attacks. 23000 to 26000

>CVEs, that is, significant number of CVEs are >not covered by IDS/IPS

>devices.

>I am guessing that there is reason for this. >IDS/IPS vendors may be

>selecting few CVEs for developing signatures. >What is the selection

>criteria followed in industry? One criteria, I >know is that Network

>IDS/IPS devices don't need to worry about >attacks that can only be

>mounted on the local machine, that is, NIDS/NIPS >devices only need to

>worry about detection of attacks mounted >remotely. Are there any other

>considerations?

>Thanks

>Ravi

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Re: CVE selection for IDS/IPS signature rules Jun 03 2008 08:24PM
Jose Nazario (jose monkey org)


 

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