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Subject: Re: Host IDS
From: Chuck Marchman (Charles.MarchmanPREDICTIVE.COM)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 14:45:54 CST

*Elias Levy (aleph1SECURITYFOCUS.COM) wrote:

> Certainly. That is why everyone is trying to sell their product as an
> IDS, whether it fits that category or not. Trying to educate users about
> new category of products is not easy. Its simpler for the marketing
> department to sell their product under some category the user already
> understands.

I agree, it is basically a marketing approach to getting the product in a
recognizable arena.

> As a side note while reading the Entercept web page I came across this
> line "Eliminates the need for dedicated security expertise". I worry
> about any product that claims it eliminated the needs for a
knowledgeable
> security staff.

I also have to worry about this as the human rationalization process is
impossible to place in an algorithm to compensate for what "might" be the
new hack that is out there. As with artificial intelligence, how do you
program imagination? IMHO this is what separates the things that man can
create and that which God can create.

Chuck Marchman
Information Security Consultant
Predictive Systems, Inc.

charles.marchmanpredictive.com