[554] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: Intro; Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Cohen)
Fri Feb 9 13:34:11 1996
From: fc@all.net (Fred Cohen)
To: ids@uow.edu.au
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:21:30 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199602011700.RAA22866@aux.epita.fr> from "Philippe Langlois" at Feb 1, 96 05:00:02 pm
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
> Hi,
>
> > In message <199601301548.PAA14298@aux.epita.fr>, Philippe Langlois writes:
> > > [snip]
> > > IDERS is a commercial _service_, it's not sold but installed for our clients
> > > as a tool for our security service.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Could you elaborate on that ?
> Our service is to secure a bunch of computer on networks. We install security
> with the admin, install our IDS and then monitor all security issues on
> our side, not at the client.
Ouch! And they trust that?
> The admin then just have to manage his system, not having to bother to
> watch security problems.
Ouch^2!! Is you IDS that perfect? How about response? Training?
Education? personnel issues? ...and on and on.
> They just install patches we gives and that's all for security.
I hope you don't publish your client list!
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