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APWG is making its message exchange format standard go-alive

May 22nd, 2007 No comments

Generally speaking, it’s a good news. No doubt, it will help data sharing and inter-operateability among different vendors so that the effectiveness and response time might be improved. The key point is the promotion. The similar case is that of IDMEF(Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format) and CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System). It took a long way for IDMEF to be adopted by those major vendors of IDS/IPS and scanners.

If the data is true, every month 13,500 URLs will be added into the library. If one URL has an average length close to 100 bytes, that means roughly 1.3MB increasement to this library. So it’s predicted this library might be over-flooded in the near future if no better algorithm is in place. The below is the full story. Read more…

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