I think similar work is being addressed in the sacm wg.

David Harrington
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On Jan 18, 2015, at 3:23 AM, B.-C. Boesch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Community,
> 
> Efficiency of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) depends on their 
> configuration and coverage of services. The coverage depends on used IDS with 
> currently vendor-specific configurations. In case of usage of multiple 
> systems the operations could become complex. Individual Communication between 
> management interface and the IDS entities results that current multi-vendor 
> IDS architectures do not interact with each other. They are independent 
> coexistent.
> 
> The Internet Draft defines data formats and exchange procedures to 
> standardize parametrization information exchange into intrusion detection and 
> response systems from a Manager to an Analyzer.
> 
> The created Intrusion Detection Parametrization Exchange Format (IDPEF) is 
> intended to be a standard data format to parametrize IDS. The development of 
> this open standardized format and the Intrusion Detection Message Exchange 
> Format (IDMEF) will be enable in combination interoperability among 
> commercial, open source, and research systems, allowing users to 
> mix-and-match the deployment of these systems according to their strong and 
> weak points to obtain an optimal IDS implementation.
> 
> The most obvious place to implement IDPEF is in the data channel between a 
> Manager and an Analyzer of an IDS within this data channel where the Manager 
> sends the configuration parameters to the Analyzers. But there are other 
> places where the IDPEF can be useful:
> 
> - Combination of specialized IDS like application-IDS with server-IDS, 
> WLAN-IDS and network-IDS to one functional interacting meta-IDS.
> 
> - Management of different IDS vendors with one central management interface.
> 
> - Interaction of different IDS by using IDPEF and IDMEF.
> 
> - Parametrization backups and restore of parametrized IDS entities.
> 
> - For a communication between a Manager and a Manager in a multi-stage 
> management architecture.
> 
> I am happy to invite you to give me feedback, suggestions, notations, hints, 
> recommendations, etc. to improve the Internet Draft. The initial version of 
> the Internet Draft could be found at:
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-boesch-idxp-idpef-00.txt
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> B.-C. Boesch
> 
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