Cynical Security: The prelude to the storm

Cynical Security

What you will find here are the uncensored views of someone who has been dabbling in security for a long time and sadly finds himself agreeing profoundly with Ben Laurie: "why do I bother?". When in a good mood there are plenty of constructive, even positive, answers to Ben's question. Sadly most of the time we are firefighting down in the depths of our machine rooms, oblivious to the fact that it might be worth fighting for a lost cause like computer security. What follows is that security people need to let off the steam which accumulates and occasionally they come up with something worth saying. Most of the time they don't, they are like crying drunkards banging their heads in desperation and solving their problems by getting deeper into security that nobody will ever read or care about.

November 24, 2002

The prelude to the storm

Yesterday I was humbled by one of my students at SANS Amsterdam. While discussing Snort he started asking me about an IDS called "Prelude". I wish I had known about it before: written by a group of mainly french hackers (in the true meaning of the word) it is a particularly interesting dNIDS.

How marvellous when students teach you something new and make your lectures much more interactive and interesting for all concerned. It is definitely going to be a fixture in my "to do" list.

Posted by arrigo at November 24, 2002 02:26 PM