> > 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