Recording maturity and accuracy would be a useful classification, but
I see that accuracy will depend on context. Still, it might be useful
to be able to only include anomaly scoring values from rules that
surpass certain maturity and/or accuracy thresholds, plus the ability
to force include and force exclude additional rules.

Colin

On 13 February 2012 18:15, Ryan Barnett <rbarn...@trustwave.com> wrote:
> We previously introduced this concept -
> https://lists.owasp.org/pipermail/owasp-modsecurity-core-rule-set/2011-May/000773.html
>
> The idea is to designate both MATURITY and ACCURACY levels of each rule.  The 
> benefits of this approach are obvious as users would then be able to easily 
> disable entire groups of rules by using SecRuleRemoveByTag.
>
> The issue I see are that we, SpiderLabs, have absolutely no insight into how 
> these rules are working in your environments.  The only way that we know that 
> a particular rule is not working well is -
>
>  1.  If you send a note to the mail-list.  We do have a mail-list setup just 
> for reporting false positives - 
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mod-security-report-false-positives.
>   I guess we need to be more vigilant in redirecting FP emails to that list 
> instead.
>  2.  If you open a JIRA ticket for the CRS - 
> https://www.modsecurity.org/tracker/browse/CORERULES
>
> We need help from the community in reporting back accuracy issues with rules. 
>  If you have any good ideas for getting details on false positives let me 
> know.
>
> --
> Ryan Barnett
> Trustwave SpiderLabs
> ModSecurity Project Leader
> OWASP ModSecurity CRS Project Leader
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