Intrusion Detection System quiz

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What is a practical reason an organization might deploy an IDS even if it also has an IPS actively blocking threats?

1. What is a practical reason an organization might deploy an IDS even if it also has an IPS actively blocking threats?
2. What is a "false negative" in IDS detection, and why is it generally considered more dangerous than a false positive?
3. What is the practical significance of an IDS's placement within a network architecture (e.g. at the perimeter vs. internal segments)?
4. Why is "alert fatigue" a significant practical concern for teams operating an IDS?
5. What is the purpose of an IDS being deployed "out-of-band" (passively monitoring a copy of traffic) rather than inline?
6. What does "correlation" mean when an IDS's alerts feed into a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) system?
7. What is a key limitation of purely signature-based intrusion detection?
8. Why can encrypted traffic pose a challenge for traditional network-based IDS deep packet inspection?
9. What is an Intrusion Detection System (IDS)?
10. What role does keeping an IDS's signature database updated play in its ongoing effectiveness?
11. Why is regularly testing and tuning an IDS's detection rules considered an important ongoing practice, rather than a one-time setup task?
12. What does "anomaly-based" IDS detection rely on, as an alternative/complement to signature-based detection?

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