:IT-Director: Sourcefire--The Open Source Answer to Network Security
IT-Director: Sourcefire--The Open Source Answer to Network Security Nov 5, 2004, 06 :15 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (6254 reads) (Other stories by Fran Howarth)
"In the past couple of years, technologies such as intrusion detection and protection systems have become mainstream tools in the corporate security arsenal. But many feel less than satisfied with the performance of some of these technologies. In particular, the number of false positives--when a legitimate piece of communication is flagged as being a possible security threat--is proving to be expensive for organisations in terms of the amount of time IT staff must spend dealing with what is actually legitimate traffic..."
