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Source: TechTarget.com - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Despite claims that intrusion detection tools are "old school" and often tedious to use, one technologist says an IDS, such as Snort, can be quite educational when grading an organization's network security.
During a session at the CSI 32nd annual Computer Security Conference this week, Matthew Hicks, senior information security analyst with the Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C., said those who scoff at IDS typically don't understand how to use it.
"Even the people who have it… sometimes turn it off," Hicks said, because it is set to trigger too many alarms. That, he noted, means the problem is with configuration, not the tool itself.
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