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Sourcefire - the open source answer to network security
Published: 4th November 2004
Author: Fran Howarth
Channel: Information Security

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.

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