Re: IDS data sets

Hallo Salim,

> I am a newbie to the forum. I am looking for some pointers as far as
> techniques/tools used in analyzing IDS data published by MIT & DARPA
> (http://www.ll.mit.edu/IST/ideval/). 

The data are intended for IDS evaluation, thus you can analyze them with 
any IDS / Network traffic analysis tool (as far as the TCPDump logs are 
concerned) or with a BSM auditing tool for the rest of them.

> My attempts thus far have resulted in
> crashing of my windows system. 

Well, what operation doesn't crash a windows system nowadays :)

Seriously: those datasets are HUGE. I advise you to use stable, simple 
utilities to analyze them. And lots of RAM would help, also.

> The data available is five years old and I
> have some doubts about the validity of any results obtained from the data 

There is an awfully good critique of that dataset in J. McHugh, "Testing 
Intrusion detection systems: a critique of the 1998 and 1999 DARPA 
intrusion detection system evaluations as performed by Lincoln 
Laboratory", ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 
(TISSEC), Volume 3, Issue 4 (November 2000)
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=382923

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