Re: [Snort-users] Getting more paranoid by the minute. :-/

Great advice, Alex. We can only mitigate the risks, not eliminate..

>From: "AJ Butcher, Information Systems and Computing"
><Alex.Butcher@bristol.ac.uk>
>To: ste@smxy.org, snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Getting more paranoid by the minute. :-/
>Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:59:09 +0100
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>--On 24 April 2004 21:35 -0400 "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@smxy.org>

>>How can I possibly learn enough, quickly enough, to write all the rules
>>to protect my client, when I don't even know all the attacks and exploits
>>that are out there?
>
>You Can't. Don't Promise That You Can.
>
>The client should be hiring you to /reduce/ exposure to risk, not to
>eliminate it. If this isn't what they /think/ they're hiring you to do, you
>need to reset their expectations, urgently.
>
>> -ste
>
>Best Regards,
>Alex.
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