Internet Draft: Standardized Parameterization of Intrusion Detection Entities

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Dear Community,

Efficiency of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) depends on their configuration and coverage of services. The coverage depends on used IDS with currently vendor-specific configurations. In case of usage of multiple systems the operations could become complex. Individual Communication between management interface and the IDS entities results that current multi-vendor IDS architectures do not interact with each other. They are independent coexistent.

The Internet Draft defines data formats and exchange procedures to standardize parametrization information exchange into intrusion detection and response systems from a Manager to an Analyzer.

The created Intrusion Detection Parametrization Exchange Format (IDPEF) is intended to be a standard data format to parametrize IDS. The development of this open standardized format and the Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format (IDMEF) will be enable in combination interoperability among commercial, open source, and research systems, allowing users to mix-and-match the deployment of these systems according to their strong and weak points to obtain an optimal IDS implementation.

The most obvious place to implement IDPEF is in the data channel between a Manager and an Analyzer of an IDS within this data channel where the Manager sends the configuration parameters to the Analyzers. But there are other places where the IDPEF can be useful:

- Combination of specialized IDS like application-IDS with server-IDS, WLAN-IDS and network-IDS to one functional interacting meta-IDS.

- Management of different IDS vendors with one central management interface.

- Interaction of different IDS by using IDPEF and IDMEF.

- Parametrization backups and restore of parametrized IDS entities.

- For a communication between a Manager and a Manager in a multi-stage management architecture.

I am happy to invite you to give me feedback, suggestions, notations, hints, recommendations, etc. to improve the Internet Draft. The initial version of the Internet Draft could be found at:

http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-boesch-idxp-idpef-00.txt

Kind regards,

B.-C. Boesch




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