[990] in Intrusion Detection Systems
Re: IDS: Introduction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Westo)
Tue Sep 16 08:19:13 1997
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 13:30:40 -0700
To: ids@wyrm.its.uow.edu.au
From: Westo <westo@bssc.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199709151356.XAA27018@wumpus.its.uow.edu.au>
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au
At 02:56 PM 9/15/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I thought I'd introduce myself since it seems to be the fashion...
>
>My name is Chris and I work as a Windows NT development consultant for a
>UK based Microsoft Backoffice / Windows NT consultancy company. I'm an
>MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer) and MCSE (Microsoft
>Certified Systems Engineer), which qualifies me to pass exams about MS
>products involving multiple choice questions with four answers, three of
>which are obviously wrong. Gee. Fear and tremble, mortal fool, for I'm a
>darn good guesser.
>
>Part of my role involves providing network security advice for clients
>and our own consultants; I pass on information on current NT exploits
>and how best to protect against them to the rest of the company, which
>is an interesting task - there are many consultants in MS environments
>who think that NT is secure off the shelf, which is obviously an
>unsupportable notion (port 139 out of band bug, l0phtcrack and dozens of
>really nasty IE bugs, etc...).
>
>My interest in intrusion detection is in both understanding what is
>available on the market (whatever the operating system) and in gathering
>concepts and techniques for my own code. I have a particular interest in
>pattern recognition - based systems of intrusion detection.
>
>Anyone else out there willing to admit MS experience?
>
>Chris.
>
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