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Don't blame the IDS
Don Parker, 2007-11-09

Some years ago, I remember reading a press release from the Gartner Group. It was about intrusion detection systems (IDS) offering little return for the monetary investment in them and furthermore, that this very same security technology would be obsolete by the year 2005. A rather bold statement and an even bolder prediction on their part.

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Yes, let's blame the IDS 2007-11-12
assurbanipal
IDS are in practice often worthless because tuning them requires extraordinary efforts, and is rarely done properly, and partly as a consequence of this in many environments nobody seriously look at them! In my experience this is not the exception but the rule.
What is needed is a technology that c...

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