IDS: IDS Self-Test

["Brian Holman" <brian_holman@cesg.gov.uk>]

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All,

   Does anyone know of an IDS which periodically self-tests? One criticism I have heard  is that an IDS can be 'knocked out' and nobody would notice for quite a while. If the IDS injected a known 'intrusion' every so often, and then ignored the resulting alarm as it would know it was only a test, then this criticism would fall flat.


Brian 


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