Re: Broken thresholding in 2923.1 and 2924.1?

Judy Novak wrote:
> I think this is a personal or site preference whether you want to track 
> by source or destination.  The logic of tracking by source is that if 
> you have an attacker attempting multiple logins to one or more hosts in 
> a short period of time, the alert should fire.
> 
> If you track by destination, you run the slight risk of having the alert 
> go off if multiple users have failed logins within a short amount of time.

That's exactly my issue with the current version. Please note that the packet
signature is for the *reply* so the attacker is the *destination*, not source.

Cheers,
nnposter


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