[474] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: Introduction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allwyn Crichlow)
Thu Jan 25 07:01:19 1996
From: Allwyn Crichlow <allwync@smooth.internic.net>
To: ids@uow.edu.au
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:50:42 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <960120202609_301365821@mail06.mail.aol.com> from "WKeely@aol.com" at Jan 20, 96 08:26:12 pm
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
Hello,
Nice to meet you.
Question...: What exactly is "incorrectly calibrated user confidence level
on successfully using the non-determinitic output/recommendations of an
information system?" ;) I have never heard of this(very curious) can you
give some detail?
Regards,
Allwyn Crichlow
>
> I would like to introduce myself to the list readers. I am Bill Keely from
> Hagerstown, MD. My day job is the Technical Director for the Security
> Directorate of Defense Information Systems Agency Western Hemisphere (DISA
> WESTHEM).
>
> The rest of the time I am a Ph.D. student at University of Maryland at
> Baltimore County
> (UMBC). My research area is the impact of an incorrectly calibrated user
> confidence level on successfully using the non-determinitic
> output/recommendations of an information system. IDSs are a good platform
> for investigating this, due to their usual low probability, but high-risk
> environment. Some of the factors I am considering including in my
> experimentation are the depth of user's knowledge of the information sources
> and the level of understanding of the IDS processing factors.
>
> The driving idea behind this research is that even the most robust system
> will not be used if the user has lost confidence in it after a few
> false-positives.
>
> Glad to be on the list, Bill
>
