So after the precious discussion, I have the following questions:

* Would the following setup be useful (interesting enough to be used)?
(a) a set of sensors reporting "interesting" events from traffic
and from hosts (e.g. from NIDS, HIDS, etc.), and then
(b) we use an anomaly detector to detect unusual patterns in
these events
(c) (To make it completely useful, we must contextualize the
alerts but that is kind of a next step).

* Would a third step be interesting?
(d) asses the probability that the unusual pattern is an attack
based on previous classifications

* Richard suggests that a IDS should have been called a "Attack
Indication System" instead. However, to test such as system, we would
not still need to be able to see how many real attacks it can detect, so
it would still be tested as an IDS?

/Tomas

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