Re: Announcement: Alert Verification for Snort

[Michael Stone <mstone () mathom us>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:58:02AM -0400, Aaron Temin wrote:
> representing two each).  I have seen a lot of text written to this list
> trying to get at the difference between an attack one cares about and an
> attack one doesn't care about.  I agree that the latter is still an
> attack, it's "ineffective" or something, but it's impact on a given
> network is different than it's intent (which is to attack).

I don't particularly care about attacks. I care about compromises. I
want an intrusion detection system, not an attack detection system.

Mike Stone

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