Intrusion Detection System

Normal Behavior

A device or software application that monitors a network for malicious activity.

Failure Behavior

May drop requests or fallback to degraded mode under load.

Business Consequence

If the IDS goes offline or is misconfigured, malicious network reconnaissance and exploitation attempts occur silently, enabling attackers to establish footholds without triggering any SOC alerts.

Visual Manifestation

"A sudden, eerie drop to zero in the network anomaly alert queue, despite active port scanning occurring on the perimeter."

Satirical Behavior

"A noisy alarm clock that cries wolf about port 443 traffic so often that the security team creates an inbox rule to delete its emails."

Known Aliases

Technical Terminology

Failure Indicators