[Cisspstudy] Question on IDS

[Heidar heidarinia]

Right answer  is 
   D. Lack of ability to scale
 
 
 
The disadvantages of network-based IDSs include:
 
They are not very scaleable; they have struggled to maintain capacities of 100 Mbps.
They are based on predefined attack signatures—signatures that will always be a step behind the latest underground exploits
IDS vendors have not caught up with all known attacks, and signature updates are not released nearly as frequently as antivirus updates.
 
 
 
Requirement to monitor every event 
  The primary host-based IDS purpose is to monitor systems for individual file changes.
 
Lack of learning model 
 This :is not weakness of statistical anomaly.
 
 
Inability to run in real time
 Network-based IDSs typically utilise network adapters running in promiscuous mode to monitor and analyse network traffic in real time
 
 
 
I hope you find useful
 
HH
 


 

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From: Jef A. <jeff132 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, January 15, 2010 8:23:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Cisspstudy] Question on IDS

This question confused me a bit also but this is my reasoning for choosing C. I was immediately able to rule out choices B & D because they just didn't apply. In regards to answer A i considered the idea that statistical anomaly detection is actually learning by comparing current activities to behavior that it believes to be normal. Pattern matching doesn't learn at all because it is only looking for a specific pattern, it is not capable of finding any deviations from that pattern. However the requirement to monitor every event is something that both devices must do and i guess they are considering it a weakness. 

i am curious to here what others have to say about this questions.


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Saurabh Bhargava <catchbhargava at yahoo.com> wrote:


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>Hello Everyone:  
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>Need your thoughts on below question: 
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>1. which of the following is the is a weakness of both statistical anomaly detection and pattern matching 
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>A. Lack of learning model
>B. inability to run in real time
>C. Requirement to monitor every event
>D. Lack of ability to scale
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>I think answer is C  but author says its A. 
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>My reasoning - Statistical IDS creates a profile of “normal” and compares activities to this profile. For that, its put in leaning mode and if an attack was happening during "learning" mode, it may go undetected in production environment as well. 
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>Pattern matching depends on signatures so may not be able to pick up "zero day" attacks. 
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>Thoughts pls?
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>cheers, SB
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