Hello,

Does anyone know of IDS tools that attempt to detect data-mining activity,
especially with regards to web traffic?

Here is the scenario: An organization has a database driven B to (C or B)
website that contains product information (price/availability etc.) that is
variable. In individual quantities, this information is mostly harmless and
necessary to give to the customer. However, in aggregate, this data may give
competitors information that would otherwise be confidential.

The idea would be to detect data-mining efforts of competitors to aggregate
the data. One must assume that efforts will be made on the part of the
competitor to disguise such activity. It would seem to me, however, that
there are practical limitations on the disguising capability and that IDS
technology looking for anomalous traffic patterns may detect such.

Anyone have any leads/ideas?

Due to time constraints, I'm asking this question without being able to do
much research. I apologize if I missed something obvious.

Thank you,
Eric Hacker, CISSP, GCIA, MCSE, CCSE
Network Security Consultant
Lucent Worldwide Services
"Long gone are the days when one's surname referred to the role
one had in the community."

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