Re: Ids evaluation

Bob McKisson (rmck@sandfiddler.paragon-systems.com)
Wed, 7 Jun 1995 19:56:58 -0400

> 
> I want to buy and install an intrusion detection system.  Our purchasing
> department is telling me that I have to provide a list of specifications for an
> intrusion detection system that can be used to evaluate the features of
> competing products.  Given the little I know of the different approaches that
> IDS systems use, this seems a difficult task.  From time to time I have been
> surprised by the high levels of ability of people posting on this list and I
> think that some of them must have been through this evaluation process before.
> 
> Can anyone e-mail me a starting point for evaluation specifications please, or
> point me to a good source?

Yeah maybe.  But intrusion detection to detect what?  Need some parameters.

rmck