RE: The usefullness of IDSes (Was: Re: Is Marty Lying?)

["Philippe Bogaerts" <xxradar () radarhack com>]

Hello,
I totally agree.  An IDS for auditing firewall or other policies can be
usefull, if properly configured. I simple hate the fact that most vendors
position their IDS product as an attack blocking device. The only thing they
can is actually RST tcp connections (sometimes).  My opnion is that is quite
a simple and basic method for doing attack blocking.



Gr

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[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com]On Behalf Of Peter Busser
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Subject: The usefullness of IDSes (Was: Re: [Full-disclosure] Is Marty
Lying?)


Hi!

> "Detect intrusions" - if you can set an IDS signature for something, then
> you shouldn't be vulnerable to it.  So the functionality of IDS is to tell
> you when you've been compromised by six-month old public vulnerabilities
> that dvdman has finally gotten his hands on an exploit for, that you never
> bothered to patch for?
>
> Useless.

And what if you use an IDS for checking a security policy? E.g. if you have
a
special server that is only used by the accounting department and you set up
rules to detect connections to that server coming from other departments?

Or to monitor port scanning probes on the network. A system shouldn't be
vulnerable to a probe. But it could mean the prelude to an attack.

Of course these things could be detected by other means as well.

Groetjes,
Peter Busser
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