RE: Recent anti-NIDS Gartner article

["Mike Lyman" <mlyman () west-point org>]

> Why do folks only talk about network based IDS?
<snip>
> Like most articles, the gartner paper assumes that there be 
> one big and mighty
> device that provides security for a whole network. This is rubbish.

Intrusion detection needs to be looked at as a process and not as a
product. IDSes are systems that support the process. The products
support the process.

Mike Lyman
mlyman () west-point org


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