RE: Email reputation for inout to IDSs?

["Hellman, Matthew" <Hellman.Matthew () principal com>]

This is just a wag, but I suspect that Cisco will most likely use this
to change (e.g. increase) the risk rating of an alert. Personally, I'm
not sure how sensible it would be to do much more than that. 

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: listbounce () securityfocus com
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> > On Behalf Of Gautam Singaraju
> > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 7:22 PM
> > To: focus-ids () securityfocus com
> > Subject: Email reputation for inout to IDSs?
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I have been working in email reputation system that has computed
> > sender reputations for over an year. I believe that there are couple
> > of efforts to incorporate email reputations into IDSs. Is someone in
> > the group working on this? Are there any IDSs which can be configured
> > to perform extensive analysis for non-reputable senders? I would be
> > interested in sharing this data with other researchers in the group.
> >
> > ---
> > Gautam
> >
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