Intrusion Detection Exchange Format (idwg)

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Last Modified: 2003-04-10

Chair(s):
Michael Erlinger <mike@cs.hmc.edu>
Stuart Staniford-Chen <stuart@silicondefense.com>
Security Area Director(s):
Russell Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
Security Area Advisor:
Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
Mailing Lists:
General Discussion: idwg-public@zurich.ibm.com
To Subscribe: idwg-public-request@zurich.ibm.com
Archive: http://www.semper.org/idwg-public/
Description of Working Group:
Security incidents are becoming more common and more serious, and
intrusion detection systems are becoming of increasing commercial
importance.  Numerous intrusion detection systems are important in the
market and different sites will select different vendors. Since
incidents are often distributed over multiple sites, it is likely that
different aspects of a single incident will be visible to different
systems.  Thus it would be advantageous for diverse intrusion
detection systems to be able to share data on attacks in progress.

The purpose of the Intrusion Detection Working Group is to define data
formats and exchange procedures for sharing information of interest to
intrusion detection and response systems, and to management systems
which may need to interact with them.  The Intrusion Detection Working
Group will coordinate its efforts with other IETF Working Groups.

The outputs of this working group will be:

1. A requirements document, which describes the high-level functional
  requirements for communication between intrusion detection systems
  and requirements for communication between intrusion detection
  systems and with management systems, including the rationale for
  those requirements.  Scenarios will be used to illustrate the
  requirements.

2. A common intrusion language specification, which describes data
  formats that satisfy the requirements.

3. A framework document, which identifies existing protocols best used
  for communication between intrusion detection systems, and describes
  how the devised data formats relate to them.
Goals and Milestones:
Done  Submit Requirements document as an Internet-Draft
Done  Submit Framework and Language documents as Internet-Drafts
Done  Submit Requirements document to IESG for consideration as an RFC.
Done  Submit Language documents to IESG for consideration as RFCs.
Done  Submitt transport documnet to IESG for consideration as RFCs
Internet-Drafts:
  • - draft-ietf-idwg-requirements-10.txt
  • - draft-ietf-idwg-idmef-xml-10.txt
  • - draft-ietf-idwg-beep-tunnel-05.txt
  • - draft-ietf-idwg-beep-idxp-07.txt
    • No Request For Comments

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