Re: False positives and false negatives

[Vincent Bernat <bernat () luffy cx>]

OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du samedi 10 février 2007, vers 17:28,
maged shaker <maged.shaker () valuesys net> disait:

> How can  reduce the  false positives are alerts generated by an IDS ?
> which the additional tool or plug-in  can do that ,so there are problems
> because they create alert noise that can hide a real attack,  and what the
> additional tool can do that
> How can detect the false negative  "real attack " that was missed by
> the IDS ?

You can use a tool like OSSEC. Or a tool like Sguil.
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