Aberdeen security predictions for 2003
ESJ: Aberdeen security predictions for 2003:
- “What we’re saying here is that [the] original notion of IDS has just fallen over at this point.”
The problem is that an IDS that flags anything possibly malicious simply produces too many alerts, says the analyst. “If you’re dealing with more alerts than you can interpret, it doesn’t do you any good.” So companies today opt for more than just alerts. “Increasingly, we’ll see them not just looking for IDS, but intrusion prevention,” he says. Of course not everything can be prevented, but more automation at least frees security managers from just responding to alerts all day. - Another interesting prediction is that this is the year e-mail administrators will take back the network. “Last year, about 25% of what went through corporate gateways was spam,” says Hemmendinger. “We think it doubles this year, and that’s because the spam artists are sufficiently creative that they’ve been able to stay ahead of the bulk of the tools that are in the marketplace.”
