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IDS/IPS - is it Vitamins?

2008-09-24 18:35:00 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...IDS - the beast that just won't die " triggered my hidden thoughts about IDS Rather than thinking about IDS as a piece of device/software that provides fancy features. Let me try to summarize some assertions about IDS IDS can capture tons of intrusion events, there is so much of don't care events it is difficult to single out event such as...
 
Tags: ids, ids camp, ids continues, ids company, ids software, vitamins, businesses, financial institutions, vmware sounds fancy
 
 
 
 
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Misc notes on IDS/IPS

2008-09-28 20:11:06 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...IDS/IPS is all determined by random drift of market forces. There is no conspiracy to make IDS/IPS this way or that way. I would like to wrap up with a quote from Arthur Chandler : "We can tell when a technology has truly arrived when the new problems it gives rise to approach in magnitude the problem it was designed to solve
 
Tags: chris hoff, blog rational survivability, blog, chris, arthur chandler, market forces, random drift, immense joy, mike rothman
 
 
 
 
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Setting up a Tarpit (Teergrube) to slow worms and network scanners using LaBrea (The "Sticky" Honeypot and IDS)

2008-06-26 01:14:22 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...IDS A network Tarpit, sometimes know by the German word Teergrube, is a service or set of hosts that deliberately try to slow malicious network connections down to a crawl. The idea is to put up unused hosts or services on the network that respond to an attacker, but do things to waste their time and greatly slow their scanning (or spreading...
 
Tags: tarpit, network, teergrube, slow worms, network scanners, worms, network tarpit, labrea, german word teergrube
 
 
 
 
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Setting up a Tarpit (Teergrube) to slow worms and network scanners using LaBrea (The "Sticky" Honeypot and IDS)

2008-06-26 01:14:22 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...IDS A network Tarpit, sometimes know by the German word Teergrube, is a service or set of hosts that deliberately try to slow malicious network connections down to a crawl. The idea is to put up unused hosts or services on the network that respond to an attacker, but do things to waste their time and greatly slow their scanning (or spreading...
 
Tags: tarpit, network, teergrube, slow worms, network scanners, worms, network tarpit, labrea, german word teergrube
 
 
 
 
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For Some, Stealing IDs Means More Than Fast Cash

2008-09-18 11:54:49 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...IDs of dead people, in order to evade the law for various reasons something that could probably be avoided with better computerized ID systems. Granted a hundred out of how many billion in the States is not that many people, however other reasons for ID theft are sometimes overlooked when we talk about scams. Here are some of the details...
 
Tags: dead people, people, federal officials, dead peoples identities, operation deathmatch, military deserters, ids, reasons, illegal immigrants
 
 
 
 
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Security Through Visibility - Montego, Lancope and NetFlow

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2008-07-30 21:57:06 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...IDS solution that is inline and running in the virtual environment is the right and only approach. Or they will tell you to hang a virtual IDS off a span port in the virtual environment and you will at least have visibility into the attacks that are taking place. Well, sure... You now have attack visibility but at the performance cost of your...
 
Tags: network, network visibility, visibility, environments, virtual environments network, security, network bandwidth, bandwidth, virtual
 
 
 
 
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Security Through Visibility - Montego, Lancope and NetFlow

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2008-07-30 21:57:06 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...IDS solution that is inline and running in the virtual environment is the right and only approach. Or they will tell you to hang a virtual IDS off a span port in the virtual environment and you will at least have visibility into the attacks that are taking place. Well, sure... You now have attack visibility but at the performance cost of your...
 
Tags: network, network visibility, visibility, environments, virtual environments network, security, network bandwidth, bandwidth, virtual
 
 
 
 
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My LA Times Op Ed on Photo ID Checks at Airport

2008-09-01 05:15:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...IDs are supposed to help protect the flying public from terrorists. Except that they don't work By Bruce Schneier August 28, 2008 The TSA is tightening its photo ID rules at airport security. Previously, people with expired IDs or who claimed to have lost their IDs were subjected to secondary screening. Then the Transportation Security...
 
Tags: list, no-fly list, airport, security, security hole, transportation security administration, photo, ids, matches ids
 
 
 
 
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Giving Drivers Licenses to Illegal Immigrants

2008-02-13 05:57:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...IDs to every resident who applies, regardless of immigration status. Issuing them doesn't make us any less secure, and refusing puts us at risk The state driver's license databases are the only comprehensive databases of U.S. residents. They're more complete, and contain more information - including photographs and, in some cases,...
 
Tags: licenses, driver licenses, illegal immigrants, licenses helps, licenses andor, deny licenses, driver, law, respects law enforcement